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Fedora 10: Advisory 2009-9386 Critical: ProFTPD SQL Injection Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey September 24, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This patch for Fedora 10 resolves significant ProFTPD vulnerabilities and enhances security by introducing novel functionalities and enhancements.
This update has a large number of changes from previous Fedora packages; the highlights are as follows: - Update to upstream release 1.3.2a - Fix SQL injection vulnerability a...

Summary

ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security,

and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration

syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for

multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory

visibility.

This package defaults to the standalone behaviour of ProFTPD, but all the

needed scripts to have it run by xinetd instead are included.

Update Information:

This update has a large number of changes from previous Fedora packages; the highlights are as follows: - Update to upstream release 1.3.2a - Fix SQL injection vulnerability at login (#485125, CVE-2009-0542) - Fix SELinux compatibility (#498375) - Fix audit logging (#506735) - Fix default configuration (#509251) - Many new loadable modules including mod_ctrls_admin and mod_wrap2 - National Language Support (RFC 2640) - Enable/disable common features in /etc/sysconfig/proftpd

Change Log

* Mon Sep 7 2009 Paul Howarth 1.3.2a-5 - Add upstream patch for MLSD with dirnames containing glob chars (#521634) * Wed Sep 2 2009 Paul Howarth 1.3.2a-4 - New DSO module: mod_exec (#520214) * Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz - 1.3.2a-3.1 - Rebuilt with new openssl * Wed Aug 19 2009 Paul Howarth 1.3.2a-3 - Use mod_vroot to work around PAM/chroot issues (#477120, #506735) * Fri Jul 31 2009 Paul Howarth 1.3.2a-2 - Add upstream patch to fix parallel build (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi) * Mon Jul 27 2009 Paul Howarth 1.3.2a-1 - Update to 1.3.2a - Add patch to reinstate support for -DPARAMETER (http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi) - Retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE, needed for pam_loginuid (#506735, fixed upstream) - Remove ScoreboardFile directive from configuration file - default value works better with SELinux (#498375) - Ship mod_quotatab_sql.so in the main package rather than the SQL backend subpackages - New DSO modules: - mod_ctrls_admin - mod_facl - mod_load - mod_quotatab_radius - mod_radius - mod_ratio - mod_rewrite - mod_site_misc - mod_wrap2 - mod_wrap2_file - mod_wrap2_sql - Enable mod_lang/nls support for RFC 2640 (and buildreq gettext) - Add /etc/sysconfig/proftpd to set PROFTPD_OPTIONS and update initscript to use this value so we can use a define to enable (e.g.) anonymous FTP support rather than having a huge commented-out section in the config file - Rewrite config file to remove most settings that don't change upstream defaults, and add brief descriptions for all available loadable modules - Move Umask and IdentLookups settings from server config to context so that they apply to all servers, including virtual hosts (#509251) - Ensure mod_ifsession is always the last one specified, which makes sure that mod_ifsession's changes are seen properly by other modules - Drop pam version requirement - all targets have sufficiently recent version - Drop redundant explicit dependency on pam - Subpackages don't need to own %{_libexecdir}/proftpd directory - Drop redundant krb5-devel buildreq - Make SRPM back-compatible with EPEL-4 (TLS cert dirs, PAM config) - Don't include README files for non-Linux platforms - Recode ChangeLog as UTF-8 - Don't ship the prxs tool for building custom DSO's since we don't ship the headers either - Prevent stripping of binaries in a slightly more robust way - Fix release tag to be ready for future beta/rc versions - Define RPM macros in global scope - BuildRequire libcap-devel so that we use the system library rather than the bundled one, and eliminate log messages like: kernel: warning: `proftpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) * Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - 1.3.2-3.1 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Apr 9 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.2-2.1 - Update the tcp_wrappers BR to be just /usr/include/tcpd.h instead. * Thu Apr 9 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.2-2 - Fix tcp_wrappers-devel BR conditional. * Mon Apr 6 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.2-1 - Update to 1.3.2. - Include mod_wrap (#479813). - Tried to include mod_wrap2* modules but build failed. * Thu Feb 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild * Sat Jan 24 2009 Caolán McNamara 1.3.2-0.3.rc3 - Rebuild for dependencies * Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.2-0.2.rc3 - Update default configuration to have a lit of available modules and more example configuration for them. * Mon Dec 22 2008 Matthias Saou 1.3.2-0.1.rc3 - Update to 1.3.2rc3 (fixes security issue #464127) - Exclude new pkgconfig file, as we already exclude header files (if someone ever needs to rebuild something against this proftpd, just ask and I'll split out a devel package... but it seems pretty useless currently). - Remove no longer needed find-umode_t patch.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #485125 - CVE-2009-0542 proftpd: SQL injection during login https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485125

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: proftpd
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 1.3.2a
Release: 5.fc10
Summary: Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server

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