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:
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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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-dfsg_1.3.0-19etch2.diff.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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/proftpd-dfsg/proftpd-ldap_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.