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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.107734
Category:Denial of Service
Title:ProFTPD < 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc < 1.3.7rc2 Unauthenticated Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary:ProFTPD is prone to a unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
ProFTPD is prone to a unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
ProFTPD allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect
handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinite loop.

Affected Software/OS:
ProFTPD before version 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before version 1.3.7rc2.

Solution:
Update to ProFTPD version 1.3.6b / 1.3.7rc2 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-18217
Bugtraq: 20191106 [SECURITY] [DSA 4559-1] proftpd-dfsg security update (Google Search)
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/7
Debian Security Information: DSA-4559 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4559
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RB2FPAWDWXT5ALAFIC5Y3RSEMXSFL6H2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YLRPYEEMQJVAXO2SXRGOQ4HBFEEPCNXG/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJDQRVZTILBX4BUCTIRKP2WBHDHDCJR5/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/NEWS
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/RELEASE_NOTES
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/NEWS
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/846
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00036.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2020:0031 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00009.html
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