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WU-FTPD "fb_realpath" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9406
Release Date: 2003-08-01
Popularity: 11,296 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:WU-FTPD 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
Allow only trusted users to login or disallow write privileges for untrusted users.

Use another FTP server until an updated version or patch is released.
http://www.wuftpd.org/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Wojciech Purczynski and Janusz Niewiadomski (iSEC Security Research).

Original Advisory:
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0011-wu-ftpd.txt

Other References:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/743092

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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