FileZilla Unspecified Format String Vulnerabilities

Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 @ 12:03:10 CDT in Security
by raven

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA24894

VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/24894/

CRITICAL: Moderately critical

IMPACT: DoS, System access

WHERE: >From remote

SOFTWARE: FileZilla 2.x - http://secunia.com/product/2925/

DESCRIPTION: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in FileZilla, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to various unspecified format string errors. These can potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary code via e.g. specially crafted server responses or data containing format string specifiers sent when a user interacts with a malicious FTP server. The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.2.32.

SOLUTION: Update to version 2.2.32. - http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=501534&group_id=21558