A vulnerability has been identified in BitKinex, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by input validation errors in the WebDAV and FTP clients when processing responses the "LIST" or "PROPFIND" commands, which could be exploited by attackers to write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system by tricking a user into downloading a directory containing files with specially crafted filenames from a malicious server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Tan Chew Keong.
ChangeLog
2008-06-04 : Initial release
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