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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-20176

In Pure-FTPd 1.0.49, a stack exhaustion issue was discovered in the listdir function in ls.c.

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31 Oct 2026, 12:35 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-20176

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 Dec 2019, 15:15 UTC

In Pure-FTPd 1.0.49, a stack exhaustion issue was discovered in the listdir function in ls.c.

osv:CVE-2019-20176
Complete source record
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