Advisory for Freestyle Chat server

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 [ Advisory for Freestyle Chat server                 ]
 [ Freestyle Chat server is made by Faust Informatics ]
 [ Site: http://www.faust-net.de                     ]
 [ by nemesystm of the DHC                            ]
 [ (http://dhcorp.cjb.net - neme-dhc () hushmail com)    ]
 [ ADV-0124                                           ]

/-|=[explanation]=|-\
Freestyle Chat server is http chat environment. It is
vulnerable to a variation of the dot dot bug. Freestyle
also suffers from a device name denial of service.

/-|=[who is vulnerable]=|-\
Freestyle Chat server 3.73
was tested and is vulnerable.
The creator of Freestyle Chat server has verified that
every version prior to 4.1 SR3 is vulnerable.
4.1 SR3 was released because of this vulnerability.

/-|=[testing it]=|-\
By requesting
http://www.server.com/.../.../scandisk.log
http://www.server.com/..../scandisk.log
one can grab any file they want. Naturally variations
on the examples above are also possible.

By requesting
http://www.server.com/aux
one can crash the server.
This is not a problem in Windows 2000, only in Windows
ME/98.

/-|=[fix]=|-\
Download Freestyle Chat server 4.1 SR3. If upgrading is
not an option for some reason, a patch is also 
available on the Faust Informatics website.
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