A use-after-free issue could be triggered remotely in the SFTP component of PSFTPd 10.0.4 Build 729. This issue could be triggered prior to authentication. The PSFTPd server did not automatically restart, which enabled attackers to perform a very effective DoS attack against this service. By sending a crafted SSH identification / version string to the server, a NULL pointer dereference could be caused, apparently because of a race condition in the window message handling, performing the cleanup for invalid connections. This incorrect cleanup code has a use-after-free.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-15T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.444Z

Reserved: 2017-10-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15271

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-15T16:29:00.373

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:14:21.340

Link: CVE-2017-15271

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