Debian Security Advisory

DLA-269-1 linux-ftpd-ssl -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
07 Jul 2015
Affected Packages:
linux-ftpd-ssl
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 788331.
More information:

The issue is due to a case of missing brackets in the patch '500-ssl.diff', which causes the execution of 'fclose(NULL)' and thus displays as a segmentation fault. The error appears while transmogrifying 'linux-ftpd' into 'linux-ftpd-ssl'.

There is no CVE assigned to this issue.

The patch was created by Mats Erik Andersson.