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TITLE:
oftpd LPSV and LPRT Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23790

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
oftpd 0.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/3257/

DESCRIPTION:
Tavis Ormandy has reported a vulnerability in oftpd, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
LPSV and LPRT commands. This can be exploited to trigger an assertion
error by passing specially crafted arguments to the LPSV or LPRT
commands, which  causes oftpd to abort.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.3.7. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict access to the service.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tavis Ormandy

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-09.xml

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