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» Topic:

vsftpd flaw could disable wide range of servers

» Added by: SecurityReason

» Date: 01.03.2011

New advisory about vulnerability in vsftpd server "vsftpd 2.3.2 remote denial-of-service". A 'resource exhaustion' vulnerability has been identified in ls.c file.

The potential scale of risk is high.
Examples of vulnerable servers:
- ftp.gnu.org
- ftp.kernel.org
- ftpgen.wip4.adobe.com
- ftp.oracle.com
- ftp.freebsd.org

Any code with huge complexity, could allow of denial of service if an affected system received vulnerable pattern.

More:
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/95

Exploit:
http://cxib.net/stuff/vspoc232.c

Fix for this issue has been created together with vsftpd projects.

ChangeLog:
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.3.4/Changelog

	Alert
libc/fnmatch(3) DoS - 2011-05-13 Allow attacker to denial of service apache 2.2.17 server


	Apache
» Apache HTTP Server Denial of Service Vulnerability

» Multiple Vendors libc/fnmatch(3) DoS (incl apache poc)

» Apache Continuum cross-site scripting vulnerability

» Apache Tomcat DoS Vulnerability



	PHP
» PHP Hashtables Denial of Service

» PHP 5.3.6 multiple null pointer dereference

» PHP 5.3.6 ZipArchive invalid use glob(3)

» libzip 0.9.3 _zip_name_locate NULL Pointer Dereference (incl PHP 5.3.5)



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