Fedora 20: proftpd Security Update
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 behavior of ProFTPD, but all the
needed scripts to have it run by xinetd instead are included.
Update Information:
Vadim Melihow reported a critical issue with proftpd installations that use the mod_copy module's SITE CPFR/SITE CPTO commands; mod_copy allows these commands to be used by *unauthenticated clients*
Upstream report:
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4169
This update contains a backported fix for this issue.
Note that mod_copy is not loaded/enabled by default in the Fedora package.
Change Log
* Thu Apr 23 2015 Paul Howarth
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1212386 - CVE-2015-3306 proftpd: unauthenticated copying of files via SITE CPFR/CPTO allowed by mod_copy https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212386
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 .