[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200903-27 ] ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-27

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: March 12, 2009

Bugs: #258450

ID: 200903-27

 

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Synopsis

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Two vulnerabilities in ProFTPD might allow for SQL injection attacks.

 

Background

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ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-ftp/proftpd < 1.3.2 >= 1.3.2

 

Description

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The following vulnerabilities were reported:

 

* Percent characters in the username are not properly handled, which

introduces a single quote character during variable substitution by

mod_sql (CVE-2009-0542).

 

* Some invalid, encoded multibyte characters are not properly handled

in mod_sql_mysql and mod_sql_postgres when NLS support is enabled

(CVE-2009-0543).

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests to the server,

possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary SQL statements.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All ProFTPD users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.2"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0542

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0542

[ 2 ] CVE-2009-0543

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0543

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-27.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5