TITLE:
War FTP Daemon "CWD" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14054

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14054/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
War FTP Daemon 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1998/

DESCRIPTION:
MC.Iglo has discovered a vulnerability in War FTP Daemon, which can
be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of "CWD"
commands. This can be exploited to crash a vulnerable service by
supplying a specially crafted pathname.

The vulnerability has been confirmed on version 1.82.00-RC9. Version
1.70 through 1.82.00-RC8 is reportedly also affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.82.00-RC10.
http://support.jgaa.com/index.php?cmd=DownloadVersion&ID=69

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
MC.Iglo

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