Gentoo: GLSA-200801-17 Normal: Netkit FTP Denial of Service Attack

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Netkit FTP Server: Denial of Service Date: January 29, 2008 Bugs: #199206 ID: 200801-17

Synopsis ======= Netkit FTP Server contains a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Background ========= net-ftp/netkit-ftpd is the Linux Netkit FTP server with optional SSL support.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/netkit-ftpd < 0.17-r7 >= 0.17-r7
========== Venustech AD-LAB discovered that an FTP client connected to a vulnerable server with passive mode and SSL support can trigger an fclose() function call on an uninitialized stream in ftpd.c.
Impact ===== ...