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Secunia Security Advisory 31958

Secunia Security Advisory 31958
Posted Sep 30, 2008
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in tnftpd, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

tags | advisory, csrf
MD5 | c42ba9913f1dec1a1a86e2b307520797

Secunia Security Advisory 31958

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TITLE:
tnftpd Long Command Processing Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31958

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31958/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
tnftpd
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/3800/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in tnftpd, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application truncating an
overly long FTP command, and improperly interpreting the remainder
string as a new FTP command. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary FTP commands with the privileges of another user by e.g.
tricking the user into following a malicious link.

This is related to:
SA31930

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 20080929.

SOLUTION:
Update to tnftpd-20080929.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/tnftp/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Originally reported by Maksymilian Arciemowicz in ProFTPD.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnftpd/?branch_id=14355&release_id=285654

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA31930:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31930/

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