A vulnerability was found in Dxmsoft XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.2.1 (File Transfer Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a format string vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-134. The product uses a function that accepts a format string as an argument, but the format string originates from an external source. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Format string vulnerability in XM Easy Personal FTP Server 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the USER command or certain other available or nonexistent commands. NOTE: It was later reported that 5.3.0 is also vulnerable.

The weakness was shared 12/26/2006 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-6751 since 12/26/2006. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (31140). The entries 34033 and 35346 are related to this item.

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• XM Easy Personal FTP Server

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• 5.2.1

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