An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read has been detected in the pure_strcmp function in utils.c.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read has been detected in the     pure_strcmp function in utils.c. (CVE-2020-9365)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in
    the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is
    called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list
    member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c. (CVE-2020-9274)

  - An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read has been detected in the
    pure_strcmp function in utils.c. (CVE-2020-9365)

Fix CVE-2020-9365 and CVE-2020-9274

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The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-54 (Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pure-FTPd. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or       cause an information disclosure.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
259665	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-9365	Nessus	Misc.	high
406592	Alpine: multiple pure-ftpd packages: security update to 1.0.49-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
406592	Alpine: multiple pure-ftpd packages: security update to 1.0.49-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400442	Alpine: multiple pure-ftpd packages: security update to 1.0.49-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
400442	Alpine: multiple pure-ftpd packages: security update to 1.0.49-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
136634	Fedora 30 : pure-ftpd (2020-fa83ea0492)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
136632	Fedora 31 : pure-ftpd (2020-84fb0920fd)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
134929	GLSA-202003-54 : Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high

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