Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:10078

Info

Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10078
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 19 1998 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 19 1998 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by ISS.
Vulnerable: Jarle Aase War FTPD 1.65
Not Vulnerable: Jarle Aase War FTPD 1.67 b05
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Discussion

Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

War FTPD is reported prone to multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. The issues present themselves due to a lack of sufficient boundary checks performed on data that is passed to the server as values for the USER and PASS commands.

A remote attacker may potentially exploit these issues pre-authentication to have arbitrary code executed in the context of the affected FTP server.

Exploit / POC

Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CORE has developed a working commercial exploit for their IMPACT
product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known
to be circulating in the wild.

Exploits (warftpd_165_pass.pm) and (warftpd_165_user.pm) have been released as part of the MetaSploit Framework 2.0:

Solution / Fix

Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released updates to address these issues:


Jarle Aase War FTPD 1.65

References

Jarle Aase War FTPD USER/PASS Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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