SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ Mailing List: BugTraqLink Number One Link Number One Link Number Two Link Number Two Link Number One Link Number One Link Number Two Link Number Two Entire Site Advisories Calendar Columnists Elsewhere Guest Feature Infocus Library Links Mailing Lists (all) -- BUGTRAQ -- FOCUS-IDS -- FOCUS-IH -- FOCUS-LINUX -- FOCUS-MS -- FOCUS-SUN -- FOCUS-VIRUS -- FORENSICS -- INCIDENTS -- PEN-TEST -- SEC JOBS -- SF NEWS -- VULN-DEV News Products Services Tools Vulns BUGTRAQ ARCHIVE [ Message Index ] [ Thread Index ][ Reply ] [ prev Msg by Date ][ next Msg by Date ] To: BugTraq Subject: MDKSA-2003:095 - Updated proftpd packages fix remote root vulnerability Date: Sep 26 2003 10:50PM Author: Mandrake Linux Security Team Message-ID: <20030926225001.21616.qmail@updates.mandrakesoft.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ________________________________________________________________________ Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory ________________________________________________________________________ Package name: proftpd Advisory ID: MDKSA-2003:095 Date: September 26th, 2003 Affected versions: 9.1, 9.2 ________________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: A vulnerability was discovered by X-Force Research at ISS in ProFTPD's handling of ASCII translation. An attacker, by downloading a carefully crafted file, can remotely exploit this bug to create a root shell. The ProFTPD team encourages all users to upgrade to version 1.2.7 or higher. The problematic code first appeared in ProFTPD 1.2.7rc1, and the provided packages are all patched by the ProFTPD team to protect against this vulnerability. ________________________________________________________________________ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0831 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/alerts/id/154 ________________________________________________________________________ Updated Packages: Mandrake Linux 9.1: b00bae0743aec3e1decccaf73a356b84 9.1/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm 6a85248750d88db30b658ee51fdebcf1 9.1/RPMS/proftpd-anonymous-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.i586.rpm c04242b94a7451164e42e96bbf648e5d 9.1/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.src.rpm Mandrake Linux 9.1/PPC: a053b5f2fa6e57ee884465385937041f ppc/9.1/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.ppc.rpm 55d22b28017dfaab6f2da238d5d8311c ppc/9.1/RPMS/proftpd-anonymous-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.ppc.rpm c04242b94a7451164e42e96bbf648e5d ppc/9.1/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-1.1.91mdk.src.rpm Mandrake Linux 9.2: 1d9b21bcb2a18fa43158c0c0aa25d13d 9.2/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-5.1.92mdk.i586.rpm 80c5b73c6e33444e2dd91659c2b897bd 9.2/RPMS/proftpd-anonymous-1.2.8-5.1.92mdk.i586.rpm ea89351b37a5572fac3f45b27a80b0f3 9.2/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-5.1.92mdk.src.rpm ________________________________________________________________________ Bug IDs fixed (see https://qa.mandrakesoft.com for more information): ________________________________________________________________________ To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you. A list of FTP mirrors can be obtained from: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php All packages are signed by MandrakeSoft for security. You can obtain the GPG public key of the Mandrake Linux Security Team by executing: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net 0x22458A98 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/dMKZmqjQ0CJFipgRAr9VAJ9VtLskLbYmZ6e2fPKwz0BFjkGsWACg1VPw PumsSXrNduTY+1HaaqplD8g= =5eUR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Want to link to this message? Use this URL: Disclaimer, Terms & Conditions About this List Featured Lists: ARIS Users bugtraq bugtraq-es bugtraq-french NEW bugtraq-jp firewalls focus-ids focus-ih focus-linux focus-ms focus-sun focus-unix-other focus-virus forensics forensics-es honeypots incidents libnet pen-test secevents secpapers secprog sectools secureshell security-basics security-management NEW securityjobs vpn vuln-dev webappsec Newsletters: sf-news ms-secnews linux-secnews [ more . . . ] Privacy Statement Copyright © 1999-2003 SecurityFocus