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TITLE:
OWFS owserver Path Type Denial Of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22700

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22700/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
OWFS and OWHTTPD 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/12500/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OWFS's owserver module, which
can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an improper handling of bad paths.
This can be exploited to crash the server via a specially crafted path
passed to certain owshell programs.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.5p5. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.5p6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=461204

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