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AFD Multiple Vulnerabilities


Secunia ID

SA49967

Release Date

19 Jul 2012

Last Change

17 Dec 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Software

AFD 1.4.x

Where

From remote

Impact
System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in AFD, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error within the URL parsing function can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an overly long server name passed to the URL.

2) Some unspecified errors can be exploited to cause buffer overflows.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 1.4.4.

Solution

Update to version 1.4.4.

Reported by

Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory

http://www.dwd.de/AFD/Changelog