Mandrake alert: proftpd update

Posted by dave on Jan 17, 2002 5:38 PM EDT
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Matthew S. Hallacy discovered that ProFTPD was not forward resolving reverse-resolved hostnames. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass ProFTPD access controls or have false information logged. Frank Denis discovered that a remote attacker could send malicious commands to the ProFTPD server and it would force the process to consume all CPU and memory resources available to it. This DoS vulnerability could bring the server down with repeated attacks. Finally, Mattias found a segmentation fault problem that is considered by the developers to be unexploitable.

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Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory ________________________________________________________________________

Package name: proftpd Advisory ID: MDKSA-2002:005 Date: January 17th, 2002 Affected versions: 7.2, 8.0, 8.1 ________________________________________________________________________

Problem Description:

Matthew S. Hallacy discovered that ProFTPD was not forward resolving reverse-resolved hostnames. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass ProFTPD access controls or have false information logged. Frank Denis discovered that a remote attacker could send malicious commands to the ProFTPD server and it would force the process to consume all CPU and memory resources available to it. This DoS vulnerability could bring the server down with repeated attacks. Finally, Mattias found a segmentation fault problem that is considered by the developers to be unexploitable. ________________________________________________________________________

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3310 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/169395 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246331 http://www.proftpd.org/critbugs.html ________________________________________________________________________

Updated Packages:

Linux-Mandrake 7.2: 7250ef2a6f2f71eb3e028920834ec093 7.2/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1.2mdk.i586.rpm 0d8ef514ea6bf73168e29e206eb01a64 7.2/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1.2mdk.src.rpm

Mandrake Linux 8.0: 23615350724cd39e1f2bbe1e96a646bd 8.0/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.i586.rpm bd96b79efd19cd75a575bbbaddb470ca 8.0/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm

Mandrake Linux 8.0/ppc: 427f4e7c110036c630bf91cc21140826 ppc/8.0/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.ppc.rpm bd96b79efd19cd75a575bbbaddb470ca ppc/8.0/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm

Mandrake Linux 8.1: d4b9c58e224cbc878c155dde708d9e11 8.1/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.i586.rpm bd96b79efd19cd75a575bbbaddb470ca 8.1/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.1mdk.src.rpm

Mandrake Linux 8.1/ia64: 95fb66a24145dc07593c01f7ea487505 ia64/8.1/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.2mdk.ia64.rpm dca5b53c1cf01c5354dd0d88451a3115 ia64/8.1/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.5-0.rc1.2mdk.src.rpm ________________________________________________________________________

Bug IDs fixed (see https://qa.mandrakesoft.com for more information):

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To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package from one of our FTP server mirrors and upgrade with "rpm -Fvh *.rpm". A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php

Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command:

rpm --checksig <filename>

All packages are signed by MandrakeSoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrake Linux Security Team from:

https://www.mandrakesecure.net/RPM-GPG-KEYS

Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours to update.

You can view other update advisories for Mandrake Linux at:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/

MandrakeSoft has several security-related mailing list services that anyone can subscribe to. Information on these lists can be obtained by visiting:

http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/mlist.php

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security@linux-mandrake.com ________________________________________________________________________

Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Linux Mandrake Security Team <security@linux-mandrake.com>

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