GLSA 200903-27 ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities

Posted by Bob on: 03/12/2009 11:40 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - ProFTPD: Multiple vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

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 lt; 1.3.2 gt;= 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 "gt;=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@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