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Secunia Advisory SA23320

Star FTP Server RETR Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA23320
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Release Date 2006-12-18
Last Update 2006-12-21
   
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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 Unpatched
   
   
3rd party PoC/exploit Link available in Customer Area
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Star FTP Server 1.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-6643 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Necro has discovered a vulnerability in Star FTP Server, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of RETR commands. This can be exploited to crash the service via sending multiple RETR commands with an arbitrary argument.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.10. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Grant access to trusted users only.

Provided and/or discovered by
Necro

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/2942

Deep Links
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