CVE-2020-6162

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Bftpd version 5.3

Description An issue was discovered that triggers an out-of-bounds read due to an uninitialized value. This causes the daemon to crash at startup in the hidegroups init function in dirlist.c.

Recommendations For Bftpd version 5.3, consider disabling the hidegroups init function as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.