Fedora 13 : proftpd-1.3.3d-1.fc13 (2011-0613)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51821

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to the current upstream maintenance release, which addresses a security issue that could affect users of the mod_sql module (not enabled by default).

- A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way ProFTPD FTP server prepared SQL queries for certain usernames, when the mod_sql module was enabled. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause the proftpd daemon to crash or, potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running 'proftpd' via a specially crafted username, provided in the authentication dialog.

The update also fixes a CPU spike when handling .ftpaccess files, and handling of SFTP uploads when compression is used.

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=670170

http://www.nessus.org/u?852284f9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51821

File Name: fedora_2011-0613.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:proftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4652

BID: 44933

FEDORA: 2011-0613