War FTP Daemon 'USER' and 'PASS' Remote Format String Vulnerability

Summary
This host is running War FTP and is prone to format string vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attacker to cause a denial of service. Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.
Insight
The flaw is due to a format string error when the username and password are received in a ftp request. This can be exploited to crash the application via a ftp request packet containing a specially crafted username and password fields.
Affected
War FTP Daemon 1.82 RC 11
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