[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2011:1029-1: important: Security update for pure-ftpd

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for pure-ftpd

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2011:1029-1

Rating: important

References: #685447 #699300 #700335 #703035

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1

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An update that contains security fixes can now be

installed. It includes one version update.

 

Description:

 

 

The OES Netware add-ons in pure-ftpd had a security problem

and some bugs, which are fixed by this update.

 

A local attacker could overwrite local files when the OES

remote server feature of pure-ftpd is enabled due to a

directory traversal. ( CVE-2011-3171)

 

Additionally the following bugs have been fixed:

 

* bnc#699300 - FTP remote server navigation does not

always succeed

* bnc#685447 - pure-ftpd does not throw an error when

the name resolution fails during remote server navigation

* bnc#700335 - put files into NCP volumes fails

* bnc#703035 - remote_server feature opens a

vulnerability with directory traversal & file overwriting

 

Indications:

 

Please install this update.

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-pure-ftpd-5091

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch slessp1-pure-ftpd-5091

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch sledsp1-pure-ftpd-5091

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.0.22]:

 

pure-ftpd-1.0.22-3.13.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64) [New Version: 1.0.22]:

 

pure-ftpd-1.0.22-3.13.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):

 

pure-ftpd-1.0.22-0.26.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 1.0.22]:

 

pure-ftpd-1.0.22-3.13.1

 

 

References:

 

https://bugzilla.novell.com/685447

https://bugzilla.novell.com/699300

https://bugzilla.novell.com/700335

https://bugzilla.novell.com/703035

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=c52bd104fe2da41024af9337e1af6c2e

http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=dd45c5f4faa971592d516df47b6195b0

 

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