Secunia Security Advisory - cologic has reported a vulnerability in DC++, which can be exploited by malicious people to manipulate sensitive information.
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TITLE:
DC++ Unspecified Manipulation of Arbitrary Files
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14880
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14880/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Manipulation of data
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
DC++ 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/2463/
DESCRIPTION:
cologic has reported a vulnerability in DC++, which can be exploited
by malicious people to manipulate sensitive information.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which can be
exploited to append data to arbitrary files.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 0.674.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.674.
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/index.php?t=2&s=1
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
cologic
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/index.php?t=8&s=1
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