SB2020070121 - Multiple vulnerabilities in uftpd daemon
Published: July 1, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020070121
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to socket leak in daemon "accept()" handling causing "Too many open files". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.