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TITLE:
TCPreen FD_SET Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28217

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28217/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
TCPreen 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/17038/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when calling
"FD_SET()" within the "SocketAddress::Connect()" method in
libsolve/sockprot.cpp. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based
buffer overflow in certain configurations by establishing multiple
concurrent connections.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.4.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://freshmeat.net/redir/tcpreen/31459/url_changelog/NEWS

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