Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title New wzdftpd packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-1452 First vendor Publication 2008-01-06
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2008-01-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

"k1tk4t" discovered that wzdftpd, a portable, modular, small and efficient ftp server, did not correctly handle the receipt of long usernames. This could allow remote users to cause the daemon to exit.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.1-2etch1.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-1.1sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.2-2.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wzdftpd package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1452

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)
50 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19548
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:19548
Title: DSA-1452-1 wzdftpd denial of service
Description: <q>k1tk4t</q> discovered that wzdftpd, a portable, modular, small and efficient ftp server, did not correctly handle the receipt of long usernames. This could allow remote users to cause the daemon to exit.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1452-1
CVE-2007-5300
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): wzdftpd
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8097
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8097
Title: DSA-1452 wzdftpd -- denial of service
Description: k1tk4t discovered that wzdftpd, a portable, modular, small and efficient ftp server, did not correctly handle the receipt of long usernames. This could allow remote users to cause the daemon to exit.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1452
CVE-2007-5300
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
 Product(s): wzdftpd
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1452-1 (wzdftpd)
File : nvt/deb_1452_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
41636 wzdftpd libwzd-core/wzd_login.c do_login_loop Function USER Command Remote Of...

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-01-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1452.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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