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Secunia Advisory SA32374

SilverSHielD "opendir" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA32374
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Release Date 2008-10-24
Last Update 2011-07-13
   
Popularity 3,970 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact DoS
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
SilverSHielD 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-6175 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Jeremy Brown has discovered a vulnerability in SilverSHielD, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing the SFTP "opendir" command. This can be exploited to crash the service by passing a specially crafted argument to the affected command.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0.2.34. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Update to version 1.0.3.35 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by
Jeremy Brown

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6815

Deep Links
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