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TITLE:
Perforce P4FTP FTP Plugin Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38839

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38839/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Perforce P4FTP FTP Plugin,
which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
and can be exploited to cause p4ftpd to crash by sending a specially
crafted packet to port 21/TCP.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2009.2/228098. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users network access to the affected service.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Evgeny Legerov, Intevydis

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://intevydis.blogspot.com/2010/03/perforce.html

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