TITLE:
Pure-FTPd Multiple Connection Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11992

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11992/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Pure-FTPd 1.0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3655/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Pure-FTPd, allowing malicious
people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the connection
handling, which can be exploited by establishing multiple
simultaneous connections to the service.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.19.
ftp://ftp.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.pureftpd.org/

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