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Secunia Advisory SA14607

Novell iChain miniFTP Server Brute Force Weakness

Secunia Advisory

SA14607

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Release Date

2005-03-16

Last Update

2006-06-26

Popularity

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Brute force

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:

Novell iChain 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2005-0797 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2005-0798 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Francisco Amato has reported a weakness in Novell iChain, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially brute force a user's password.

The problem is that the miniFTP server does not limit the number of invalid logins nor logs these. This may eventually allow a malicious person to guess a valid password.

The miniFTP server reportedly also returns error messages when an invalid username is supplied.

The weakness has been reported in version 2.3. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to Support Pack 4 Interim Release 1 version 2.3.314.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Francisco Amato

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Novell:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10096887.htm
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2973992.htm

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