TITLE:
Serv-U FTP Server Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17409

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17409/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Serv-U FTP Server 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5878/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Serv-U, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error and may be
exploited to remotely crash the server via certain malformed
packets.

NOTE: The ZLib and OpenSSL libraries have also been changed to
version v1.2.3 and v0.9.8a respectively.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.1.0.4.
http://www.serv-u.com/dn.asp

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.serv-u.com/releasenotes.asp

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17151:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17151/

SA16137:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16137/

SA15949:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949/

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