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Gentoo: GLSA-200407-04 Normal: Pure-FTPd DoS Risk on Connection Limit

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Gentoo GLSA-202309-01 addresses a vulnerability in Nginx that may result in service disruption when handling excessive requests, with medium impact rating recommended.
Pure-FTPd contains a bug potentially allowing a Denial of Service attack when the maximum number of connections is reached.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200407-04
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Pure-FTPd: Potential DoS when maximum connections is
            reached
      Date: July 04, 2004
      Bugs: #54590
        ID: 200407-04


Synopsis
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Pure-FTPd contains a bug potentially allowing a Denial of Service
attack when the maximum number of connections is reached.

Background
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Pure-FTPd is a fast, production-quality and standards-compliant FTP
server.

Affected packages
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     Package            /   Vulnerable   /                  Unaffected
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  1  net-ftp/pure-ftpd       <= 1.0.18                    >= 1.0.18-r1

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Pure-FTPd contains a bug in the accept_client function hand...
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