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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63573
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1727-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'proftpd-dfsg' package(s) announced via the DSA-1727-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'proftpd-dfsg' package(s) announced via the DSA-1727-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two SQL injection vulnerabilities have been found in proftpd, a virtual-hosting FTP daemon. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2009-0542

Shino discovered that proftpd is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability via the use of certain characters in the username.

CVE-2009-0543

TJ Saunders discovered that proftpd is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability due to insufficient escaping mechanisms, when multybite character encodings are used.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.1-17lenny1.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd-dfsg package.

Affected Software/OS:
'proftpd-dfsg' package(s) on Debian 5.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0542
Bugtraq: 20090210 Another SQL injection in ProFTPd with mod_mysql (probably postgres as well) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500823/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20090210 ProFTPd with mod_mysql Authentication Bypass Exploit (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500851/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20090210 Re: Another SQL injection in ProFTPd with mod_mysql (probably postgres as well) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500833/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20090211 Re: Re: Another SQL injection in ProFTPd with mod_mysql (probably postgres as well) (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500852/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1730 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1730
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8037
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-27.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/5
http://secunia.com/advisories/34268
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-0543
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/11/4
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG

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