From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 09:38:14 CDT

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TITLE:
OpenFTPD "SITE MSG" FTP Command Format String Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12174

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12174/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
OpenFTPD 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/3745/

DESCRIPTION:
Thomas Wana has reported a vulnerability in OpenFTPD, which can be
exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the
"cat_message()" function. This can be exploited via a specially
crafted argument to a "SITE MSG" FTP command.

Successful exploitation requires a valid FTP user account.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions up to 0.30.2.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 0.30.2:
http://www.openftpd.org/openftpd-daily.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Thomas Wana

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