TITLE:
Winny Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19795

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CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Winny 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/9500/

DESCRIPTION:
eEye Digital Security has reported a vulnerability in Winny, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
handling of specific commands received via the file transfer port.
This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow and
allows arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.0 b7.1. Prior
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use another product.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Yuji Ukai and Ryoji Kanai, eEye Digital Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.eeye.com/html/research/advisories/AD20060421.html

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