Chesapeake TFTP Server has directory traversal and Denial of Service vulnerabilities with no fix.
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Luigi Auriemma
Application: Chesapeake TFTP Server
http://www.netcordia.com/tools/tools/TrivialFTP/tftp.html
Versions: 1.0
Platforms: any supported by Java
Bugs: A] directory traversal
B] Denial of Service
Exploitation: remote
Date: 30 October 2004
Author: Luigi Auriemma
e-mail: [email protected]
web: http://aluigi.altervista.org
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1) Introduction
2) Bugs
3) The Code
4) Fix
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1) Introduction
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Chesapeake TFTP Server is (was) a server written in Java some years ago
from the Chesapeake developers (now Netcordia).
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2) Bugs
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A] directory traversal
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The server is vulnerable to a classical directory traversal bug
happening when an attacker uses the dot-dot-slash/backslash pattern
letting him to upload or download files everywhere in the disk on which
is set the base file directory.
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B] Denial of Service
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The server stops to respond to the clients requests if receives an UDP
packet bigger than 514 bytes.
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3) The Code
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http://aluigi.altervista.org/testz/tftpx.zip
A] tftpx server ../secret.txt secret.txt
tftpx -u server ..\..\windows\calc.exe evil.exe
B] tftpx -f server 508 none
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4) Fix
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No fix.
This program is no longer supported.
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