A vulnerability has been identified in Ipswitch WS_FTP Server with SSH, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the SSH server when processing an overly long argument passed to the "opendir" command, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to crash an affected server or execute arbitrary code.
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Vulnerability reported by securfrog.
ChangeLog
2008-02-04 : Initial release
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