War FTP Daemon Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24494
Release Date: 2007-03-14
Last Update: 2007-03-26
Popularity: 6,168 views

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

Software:War FTP Daemon 1.6x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1567


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.


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