Debian DSA-1730-1 Critical: Proftpd SQL Injection Remote Threat Fix

Two SQL injection vulnerabilities have been found in proftpd, a
virtual-hosting FTP daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-0542

Shino discovered that proftpd is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability
via the use of certain characters in the username.


CVE-2009-0543

TJ Saunders discovered that proftpd is prone to an SQL injection
vulnerability due to insufficient escaping mechanisms, when multybite
character encodings are used.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.1-17lenny2.

The oldstable distribution (etch) is not affected by these problems.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.2-1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed
soon.

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