Skip to main content

Mondoo

Vulnerability Management
Technology
Services

Solutions

Financial Services
Manufacturing
Healthcare

Resources

Blog
Vulnerability Database
Documentation
GitHub

Company

About
Careers
Partners
Contact

Legal

Privacy
Terms
Imprint

© 2026 Mondoo, Inc.

Log in Get Assessment

Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2003-0854

CVE-2003-0854

UNKNOWN

ls in the fileutils or coreutils packages allows local users to consume a large amount of memory via a large -w value, which can be remotely exploited via applications that use ls, such as wu-ftpd

Published Oct 25, 2003

Modified 1 years ago

Details

ls in the fileutils or coreutils packages allows local users to consume a large amount of memory via a large -w value, which can be remotely exploited via applications that use ls, such as wu-ftpd.

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000768

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000771

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-October/012548.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/10126

http://secunia.com/advisories/17069

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-213.pdf

http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-705

http://www.guninski.com/binls.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:106

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-309.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-310.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6014

http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-60.txt

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0854

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/115

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

2.1

Exploitability

Access Vector

LocalAV:L

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

NoneC:N

Integrity

NoneI:N

Availability

PartialA:P

2.1/AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedOct 25, 2003

ModifiedAug 8, 2024

CVE-2003-0854 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence