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freeFTPd PASS Command Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Aug 20, 2013
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

freeFTPd 1.0.10 and below contains an overflow condition that is triggered as
user-supplied input is not properly validated when handling a specially crafted
PASS command. This may allow a remote attacker to cause a buffer overflow,
resulting in a denial of service or allow the execution of arbitrary code.

freeFTPd must have an account set to authorization anonymous user account.

Authors

Wireghoul
TecR0c [email protected]

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


    msf > use exploit/windows/ftp/freeftpd_pass
    msf exploit(freeftpd_pass) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(freeftpd_pass) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(freeftpd_pass) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(freeftpd_pass) > exploit
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