VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:22608

Info

VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 22608
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2007-1014
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Feb 18 2007 12:00AM
Updated: May 12 2015 07:34PM
Credit: Discovery of this issue is credited to r0ut3r.
Vulnerable: VicFTPS VicFTPS 3.9
Not Vulnerable: VicFTPS VicFTPS 5.0

Discussion

VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A remote buffer-overflow vulnerability is reported in VicFTPS. This issue occurs because the application fails to properly validate the length of user-supplied strings prior to copying them into finite-sized process buffers.

An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the affected server to crash and may be able to execute arbitrary code in the context of the server process.

VicFTPS versions prior to 5.0 are vulnerable to this issue.

Exploit / POC

VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following proof-of-concept exploit is available:

Solution / Fix

VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 5.0 of VicFTPS to address this issue.

References

VicFTPS Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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