Fedora 19 : proftpd-1.3.4d-4.fc19 (2013-16798)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70082

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses an issue with mod_sftp and mod_sftp_pam in which a malicious client could cause the server to make extremely large memory requests and potentially crash.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected proftpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007679

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc12500b

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70082

File Name: fedora_2013-16798.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:proftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2013

Reference Information

BID: 62328

FEDORA: 2013-16798