Gentoo: GLSA-202103-09 High: ProFTPD Local Escalation Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200702-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ProFTPD: Local privilege escalation Date: February 13, 2007 Bugs: #158122 ID: 200702-02

Synopsis ======= A flaw in ProFTPD may allow a local attacker to obtain root privileges.
Background ========= ProFTPD is a powerful, configurable, and free FTP daemon.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/proftpd < 1.3.1_rc1 >= 1.3.1_rc1
========== A flaw exists in the mod_ctrls module of ProFTPD, normally used to allow FTP server administrators to configure the daemon at runtime.
Impact ===== An FTP server administrator permitted to interact with mod_ctrls co...