CVE-2016-20046
HIGH
NVD
CVSS Score
8.4
Severity
HIGH
Published
Mar 28, 2026
Vendor
unknown
Description
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.