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Mageia 9: MGASA-2025-0081 critical advisory for ProFTPD DoS vulnerability

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Calendar Grey February 26, 2025
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 9 has issued a security advisory concerning a critical buffer overflow flaw in ProFTPD, potentially exposing systems to Denial of Service (DoS) threats.
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Proftpd commit 4017eff8 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and can cause a denial of service (DoS) on the FTP service by sending ...

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Proftpd commit 4017eff8 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and can cause a denial of service (DoS) on the FTP service by sending a maliciously crafted message to the ProFTPD service port. (CVE-2024-57392)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34042

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E36XSNXDCOSSYTPKEMAEUAZ6QVQJTSFZ/

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- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57392

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow remote code execution DoS remote execution ProFTPD Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/proftpd-1.3.8c-1.1.mga9

Severity
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Publication date: 26 Feb 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0081.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-57392

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow remote code execution DoS remote execution ProFTPD Mageia

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