KLA10131 DoS vulnerability in CuteFTP

A buffer overflow was found in CuteFTP. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed site list.

Original advisories

Related products

CuteFTP-Pro

CuteFTP-Home

CVE list

CVE-2009-3483 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP Professional versions 8.3.3 and 8.3.3.0054GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP Home versions 8.3.3 and 8.3.3.0054GlobalSCAPE CuteFTP Lite versions 8.3.3 and 8.3.3.0054