Version 2.3a1 Linux and is likely to affect other platforms.
Details:
SurgeFTP provides a mirror functionality but fails to detect malformated
command responses. This concerns the PASV command and its response from
the
mirrored server. SurgeFTP fails to parse a response to PASV properly so
that
it will crash if the response was malformated.
Impact:
It may be possible for an attacker to shut down the service. By default,
SurgeFTP respawns after a couple of seconds. But then, immediately
reconnects
to the mirrored server. As long as the attacker keeps sending malformated
PASV responses to the server, it will keep shutting down immediately after
restarting.
Exploit:
The proof of concept exploit code is available.
Vendor Status:
Vendor notified. The vulnerability has been fixed.
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