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Cesar FTP "RETR" Command Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10927
Release Date: 2004-02-19
Popularity: 7,158 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Cesar FTP 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
intuit has discovered a vulnerability in Cesar FTP, allowing malicious users to cause a Denial of Service.

Cesar FTP fails to handle multiple sessions where a long string (4084 characters) is retrieved (RETR). This causes the server process to consume 99% CPU resources and stop processing new connections.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.99g. Other versions may also be affected.

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