Fileutils vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

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The short answer

Fileutils is made by Gnu. We track 3 published vulnerabilities in it, across 5 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Fileutils, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Fileutils vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Fileutils's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Fileutils flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 11%

    An integer overflow in ls in the fileutils or coreutils packages may allow local users to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a large -w value, which could be remotely exploited via applications...

    CVSS5.0Published17 Nov 2003
  2. 1.1%

    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.

    CVSS2.1Published17 Nov 2003
  3. 0.3%

    Race condition in the recursive (1) directory deletion and (2) directory move in GNU File Utilities (fileutils) 4.1 and earlier allows local users to delete directories as the user running fileutils by moving a...

    CVSS1.2Published26 Jul 2002
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We track 3 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Fileutils, across 5 versions.

None of Fileutils's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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