CVE-2019-9668 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the FTP daemon by sending a specific data length value, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-9668?
CVE-2019-9668 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 31 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An issue was discovered in rovinbhandari FTP through 2012-03-28. receive_file in file_transfer_functions.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a 0xffff datalen field value.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-9668?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Rovinbhandari Ftp Project Rovinbhandari Ftp.
How do I fix CVE-2019-9668?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-9668 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-9668 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-9668 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6634-p9g9-wc3v.