CVE-2016-20046
High · 8.4CVSS
8.4
EPSS
0.1%
Published
Mar 28, 2026
CISA due date
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The record
zFTP Client 20061220+dfsg3-4.1 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the NAME parameter handling of FTP connections that allows local attackers to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Attackers can supply an oversized NAME value exceeding the 80-byte buffer allocated in strcpy_chk to overwrite the instruction pointer and execute shellcode with user privileges.
Affected packages
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