CVE-2008-1052

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-02-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The administration web interface in NetWin SurgeFTP 2.3a2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a large integer in the Content-Length HTTP header, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference when memory allocation fails.

Affected products

Netwin SurgeFTP: 2.3a2

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgeftpizza-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29096
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3704
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488745/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27993
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40843
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgeftpizza-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29096
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3704
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488745/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27993
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40843

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