Scientific Linux: Important vsftpd Security Update for CPU Overload

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:15:46 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA Important: vsftpd on SL4.x, SL5.x,
 SL6.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Important: vsftpd security update
Issue date:	2011-03-09
CVE Names:	CVE-2011-0762

A flaw was discovered in the way vsftpd processed file name patterns. An
FTP user could use this flaw to cause the vsftpd process to use an
excessive amount of CPU time, when processing a request with a
specially-crafted file name pattern. (CVE-2011-0762)

The vsftpd daemon must be restarted for this update to take effect.

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
vsftpd-2.0.1-9.el4.src.rpm
 i386:
vsftpd-2.0.1-9.el4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
vsftpd-2.0.1-9.el4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
vsftpd-2.0.5-16.el5_6.1.src.rpm
 i386:
vsftpd-2.0.5-16.el5_6.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
vsftpd-2.0.5-16.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 6.x

 SRPMS:
vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6_0.1.src.rpm
 i386:
vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6_0.1.i686.rpm
 x86_64:
vsftpd-2.2.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson