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Fedora 42 vsftpd Critical CVE-2025-14242 Remote Access Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical update for Fedora 42 addressing CVE-2025-14242 in vsftpd to enhance FTP security and system integrity.
Resolve CVE-2025-14242

Summary

vsftpd is a Very Secure FTP daemon. It was written completely from

scratch.

Update Information:

Resolve CVE-2025-14242

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora remote access important ftp daemon cve-2025-14242

Change Log

* Wed Jan 14 2026 Tomas Korbar - 3.0.5-14 - Resolve CVE-2025-14242 * Thu Dec 18 2025 Fedor Vorobev - 3.0.5-13 - Add a tmpfiles.d config. (image mode support) * Fri Jul 25 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.0.5-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2026-f6fadfed32 2026-01-23 01:14:49.116932+00:00 Name : vsftpd Product : Fedora 42 Version : 3.0.5 Release : 14.fc42 URL : https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html Summary : Very Secure Ftp Daemon Description : vsftpd is a Very Secure FTP daemon. It was written completely from scratch.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-f6fadfed32' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: vsftpd
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.0.5
Release: 14.fc42
URL: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html
Summary: Very Secure Ftp Daemon

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora remote access important ftp daemon cve-2025-14242

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