TITLE:
SecureCRT / SecureFX Potential Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19040

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19040/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Unknown

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SecureFX 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/7336/
SecureCRT 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/5688/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability with an unknown impact has been reported in SecureCRT
and SecureFX.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when converting a
unicode string to a multi-byte string. This can potentially be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions:
* SecureCRT version 5.0.4 and prior.
* SecureFX version 3.0.4 and prior.

SOLUTION:
Update to a fixed version.

SecureCRT:
Update to version 5.0.5.
http://www.vandyke.com/download/securecrt/index.html

SecureFX:
Update to version 3.0.4.
http://www.vandyke.com/download/securefx/index.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/history.txt
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/history.txt

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