Secunia - Stay Secure
Gartner
Home Corporate Website Jobs Updated Mailing Lists RSS Blog  Online Shop Advertise
Software Inspectors
  Scan Online
  Personal (PSI)
  Network (NSI 2.0)

Solutions For
  Security Professionals
  Security Vendors

Free Solutions For
  Open Communities
  Journalists & Media

Secunia Advisories
  Search
  Historic Advisories
  Listed By Product
  Listed By Vendor
  Statistics / Graphs
  Secunia Research
  Report Vulnerability
  About Advisories

Virus Information
  Chronological List
  Last 10 Virus Alerts
  About Virus Information

Secunia Customers
  Customer Area


War FTP Daemon Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24494  
Release Date: 2007-03-14
Last Update: 2007-03-26

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:War FTP Daemon 1.6x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-1567 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Immunity has reported a vulnerability in WarFTP Daemon, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error prior to authentication and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.65. Other versions may also be affected.

NOTE: This vulnerability may be related to buffer overflow vulnerabilities within the "USER" and "PASS" commands, which were reported back in 1998.

Solution:
The vendor recommends using the version 1.80 series.

Restrict access to the FTP service.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Immunity, Inc.

Changelog:
2007-03-15: Updated "Description" section.
2007-03-26: Added CVE reference.



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

1 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. War FTP Daemon Stores Passwords in Clear Text


Send Feedback to Secunia

If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.








Secunia PSI
Scan | Patch | Track
Free Download

Secunia Poll

Do you think it's important to read Setup/User Guides for applications for use within your network?


See Results   


Most Popular Advisories

1.
Red Hat update for vsftpd
2.
Red Hat update for rdesktop
3.
Red Hat update for rdesktop
4.
OpenBSD BIND Query Port DNS Cache Poisoning
5.
Linux Kernel LDT Buffer Size Handling Vulnerability
6.
Debian update for clamav
7.
Red Hat update for coreutils
8.
Red Hat update for nss_ldap
9.
Drupal Session Fixation Vulnerability
10.
Apple Safari Cross-Domain Cookie Injection Vulnerability





Vulnerability Management - Terms & Conditions - Copyright 2002-2008 Secunia - Compliance - Contact Secunia