ProFTPd ASCII Newline Character Overflow

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1844

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.

Description

The remote host is running a version of ProFTPd which seems to be vulnerable to a buffer overflow when a user downloads a malformed ASCII file.
An attacker with upload privileges on this host may abuse this flaw to gain a root shell on this host.

Solution

Upgrade to ProFTPd 1.2.9 or 1.2.8p or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 1844

Family: FTP Servers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 11849

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:proftpd_project:proftpd

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0831

BID: 8679

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