Description: A vulnerability has been reported in OWFS's owserver module, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an improper handling of bad paths. This can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted path passed to certain owshell programs.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.5p5. Prior versions may also be affected.
Solution: Update to version 2.5p6.
Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by the vendor.
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