[wget-notify] [bug #20419] wget: [CVE-2006-6719] segfaults on too many FTP 220 responses at once

[Micah Cowan]

Update of bug #20419 (project wget):

                Category:          User Interface => None                   
                Severity:              3 - Normal => 4 - Important          
         Planned Release:                    None => 1.11                   

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Follow-up Comment #1:

CVE description: "The ftp_syst function in ftp-basic.c in Free Software
Foundation (FSF) GNU wget 1.10.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (application crash) via a malicious FTP server with a large number of
blank 220 responses to the SYST command."

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