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Debian: DSA-4635-1 Urgent: ProFTPD Memory Pool Corruption DoS Alert

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2020
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ProFTPD patch released to resolve memory management vulnerability. Users are advised to update their Debian stable and oldstable systems.
Antonio Morales discovered an user-after-free flaw in the memory pool allocator in ProFTPD, a powerful modular FTP/SFTP/FTPS server
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Summary

For the oldstable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.3.5b-4+deb9u4.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.6-4+deb10u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd-dfsg packages.

For the detailed security status of proftpd-dfsg please refer to its
security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/proftpd-dfsg

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: proftpd-dfsg
CVE ID: CVE-2020-9273

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