Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1689-1 proftpd-dfsg -- missing input validation

Date Reported:
21 Dec 2008
Affected Packages:
proftpd-dfsg
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 502674.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 31289.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4242.
More information:

Maksymilian Arciemowicz of securityreason.com reported that ProFTPD is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and executes arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-19etch2 and in version 1.3.1-15~bpo40+1 for backports.

For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-15.

We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd-dfsg package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-dfsg_1.3.0-19etch2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-dfsg_1.3.0-19etch2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-dfsg_1.3.0.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-doc_1.3.0-19etch2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-ldap_1.3.0-19etch2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-mysql_1.3.0-19etch2_all.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-pgsql_1.3.0-19etch2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd_1.3.0-19etch2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.