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Gentoo: GLSA-201309-15 High: ProFTPD Remote Code Exec Threats

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2013
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Discover multiple vulnerabilities in ProFTPD, exposing critical security risks from arbitrary code execution to DoS attacks.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ProFTPD, the worst of which leading to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ProFTPD. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity security issue remote execution FTP server ProFTPD

Resolution

All ProFTPD users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.4d"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2009-3555 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-3555 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-3867 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3867 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-4221 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4221 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-4652 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4652 [ 5 ] CVE-2011-1137 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1137 [ 6 ] CVE-2011-4130 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4130 [ 7 ] CVE-2012-6095 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-6095 [ 8 ] CVE-2013-4359 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4359

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201309-15
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 24, 2013
Bugs: #305343, #343389, #348998, #354080, #361963, #390075,
ID: 201309-15

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity security issue remote execution FTP server ProFTPD

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ProFTPD, the worst of which leading to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-ftp/proftpd < 1.3.4d >= 1.3.4d

Impact

===== A context-dependent attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, perform man-in-the-middle attacks to spoof arbitrary SSL servers, cause a Denial of Service condition, or read and modify arbitrary files.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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