War FTP connection flood denial of service
| warftp-connection-flood (3953) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Jarle Aase's War FTP Daemon is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker can crash WarFTP by flooding it with sixty or more connections and including certain characters in the logon name.
Platforms Affected:
- Jgaa, WarFTPd
Remedy:
No remedy available as of November 29, 2008.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Thu Dec 16 1999 - 21:01:14 CST, Statement: Local / Remote D.o.S Attack in War FTP Daemon 1.70 at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/1999-q4/0368.html.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Tue Dec 14 1999 - 00:57:08 CST, Local / Remote D.o.S Attack in War FTP Daemon 1.70 Vulnerability at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/1999-q4/0319.html.
- CVE-1999-1003: War FTP Daemon 1.70 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by flooding it with connections.
Reported:
Dec 14, 1999
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