From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 13:17:10 CDT

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TITLE:
SmbFTPD "SMBDirList()" Format String Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27014

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27014/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
SmbFTPD 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/15898/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in SmbFTPD, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error within the
"SMBDirList()" function in dirlist.c. This can potentially be
exploited to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted
filename.

Successful exploitation may require that the attacker can create
specially crafted filenames.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.96. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.97.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Jerry Illikainen.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=543077

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