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TITLE:
Golden FTP USER Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23323

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23323/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Golden FTP Server 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4734/

DESCRIPTION:
rgod has discovered a vulnerability in Golden FTP, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
processing of arguments passed to the "USER" command and can be
exploited by passing an overly long string (more than 5,000 bytes).

Successful exploitation causes the service to become unresponsive.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.92. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Filter overly long requests to the FTP service in a proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
rgod

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://retrogod.altervista.org/golden_heap.html

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