Slackware: 2020-051-01 Moderate: Proftpd Memory Pool Issue
slackware
February 20, 2020
New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.6c-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. No CVEs assigned, but this sure looks like a security issue: Use-after-free vulnerability in memory pools during data transfer. (* Security fix *)
Topics Covered
Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.0 package:
ad130cbacf59ba92d23da0b8c6dd5c8e proftpd-1.3.6c-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
e0e9d4bfd44229fc5cbb0d16decd62e1 proftpd-1.3.6c-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
8e3126f9af6dbbf817bd43e77ca9cc8d proftpd-1.3.6c-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
ea71c0df4222e5b2046876aef3461acc proftpd-1.3.6c-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware 14.2 package:
cff0f04f8d96e58c9315900ab27e770a proftpd-1.3.6c-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package:
993452ec1b0c1a6785a09d0e960be20c proftpd-1.3.6c-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package:
8c5c8c09c9ce10219fd92ecf72f742cf n/proftpd-1.3.6c-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
346f1b9c24259e9f61e1063a15bdbef1 n/proftpd-1.3.6c-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg proftpd-1.3.6c-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
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