CVE-2003-0854

CVE-2003-0854 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in the 'ls' utility, part of GNU fileutils and coreutils packages, which can be remotely triggered through applications like wu-ftpd. An attacker can exploit this by providing a large '-w' value, leading to excessive memory consumption. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. While an ExploitDB entry exists for a remote denial-of-service against WU-FTPD, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.