TITLE:
Novell NetWare NWFTPD Potential Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19265

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19265/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Novell NetWare 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/78/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in NetWare, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in NWFTPD.NLM
within the handling of the MDTM command. This can be exploited to
cause abnormal termination of the service via an overly long filename
supplied to the command.

The vulnerability has been reported in NWFTPD.NLM versions prior to
5.07.

SOLUTION:
Update to NWFTPD.NLM version 5.07 (requires NetWare 6.5 SP4 or
higher, or OES NetWare SP1 or higher).
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2973435.htm

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/2973435.htm

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