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Slackware proftpd Critical Stack Overflow Advisory 2026-189-02

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Calendar Grey July 8, 2026
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Upgrade to the latest proftpd package for Slackware to address significant security issues and bugs in the software.
New proftpd packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues.

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.9c-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues: ExecEnviron values not passed due to regression since 1.3.8.d. Stack buffer overflow in MLSD/MLST handling for long path names. MaxTransfersPerUser no longer enforces configured limits. AdminControlsACLs for config, get actions not honored as they should be. Memcached/Redis-cached JSON TLS session/OCSP entries decoded into fixed buffers without bounds checking. RewriteMap unescape builtin use causes one-byte out-of-bounds write, fails to reject illegal characters. SQL group name lookup concatenates client-provided group names without escaping. Authenticated SFTP sessions can overflow the SFTP packet buffer. Default Controls socket ACLs unintentionally allow all users access for sending Controls requests. (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.9c-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/patches/packages/proftpd-1.3.9c-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/proftpd-1.3.9c-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/proftpd-1.3.9c-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 5e957bcf4abf13fc957520d6987eb954 proftpd-1.3.9c-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 7506a63751fc4996465a2c83e9174eae proftpd-1.3.9c-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: eb1aa81c4db3a984dc39f9e75438e067 n/proftpd-1.3.9c-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: d28ec7ff480ab4121deb30c59c73e9ca n/proftpd-1.3.9c-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg proftpd-1.3.9c-i586-1_slack15.0.txz