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Fedora 8: 2009-0195 Moderate: ProFTPD CSRF Attack Mitigation

fedora
Calendar Grey January 7, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A patch for proftpd in Fedora 8 addresses a CSRF vulnerability that permits exploit attempts, along with resolving SSL termination issues.
This update fixes a security issue where an attacker could conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands

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.

This update fixes a security issue where an attacker could conduct cross-site

request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands. It also fixes

some SSL shutdown issues seen with certain clients.

* Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-8

- Update default configuration to have a lit of available modules and more

example configuration for them.

- Include patches to fix TLS issues (#457280).

* Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-7

- Add Debian patch to fix CSRF vulnerability (#464127, upstream #3115).

* Fri Aug 8 2008 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-6

- Add mod_ban support (#457289, Philip Prindeville).

* Tue Feb 19 2008 Fedora Release Engineering

- Autorebuild for GCC 4.3

* Wed Feb 13 2008 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-4

- Pass --enable-shadow to also have it available, not just PAM (#378981).

- Add mod_ifsession as DSO (#432539).

* Mon Dec 17 2007 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-3

- Rebuild for new openssl, patch from Paul Howarth.

* Mon Oct 22 2007 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-2

- Include openldap schema file for quota support (Fran Taylor, #291891).

- Include FDS compatible LDIF file for quota support (converted).

- Prefix source welcome.msg for consistency.

[ 1 ] Bug #464127 - CVE-2008-4242 proftpd CSRF attack

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464127

su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 8
Version: 1.3.1
Release: 8.fc8
Summary: Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server

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