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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63128
Category:Fedora Local Security Checks
Title:Fedora Core 8 FEDORA-2009-0195 (proftpd)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to proftpd;announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-0195.;Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to proftpd
announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-0195.
Note: This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional.

Vulnerability Insight:
Update Information:

This update fixes a security issue where an attacker could conduct cross-site
request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands. It
also fixes some SSL shutdown issues seen with certain clients.

ChangeLog:

* Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-8

- Update default configuration to have a lit of available modules and more
example configuration for them.

- Include patches to fix TLS issues (#457280).

* Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-7

- Add Debian patch to fix CSRF vulnerability (#464127, upstream #3115).

Solution:
Apply the appropriate updates.

This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use
su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line.

CVSS Score:
6.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-4242
BugTraq ID: 31289
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31289
Debian Security Information: DSA-1689 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1689
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00078.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00245.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020945
http://secunia.com/advisories/31930
http://secunia.com/advisories/33261
http://secunia.com/advisories/33413
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4313
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/56
XForce ISS Database: proftpd-url-csrf(45274)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45274
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