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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69218
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2011:0337
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:
The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2011:0337.

vsftpd (Very Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon) is a secure FTP
server for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.

A flaw was discovered in the way vsftpd processed file name patterns. An
FTP user could use this flaw to cause the vsftpd process to use an
excessive amount of CPU time, when processing a request with a
specially-crafted file name pattern. (CVE-2011-0762)

All vsftpd users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a
backported patch to correct this issue. The vsftpd daemon must be restarted
for this update to take effect.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0337.html

Risk factor : Medium

CVSS Score:
4.0

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-0762
BugTraq ID: 46617
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46617
Bugtraq: 20110301 vsftpd 2.3.2 remote denial-of-service (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516748/100/0/threaded
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#590604
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/590604
Debian Security Information: DSA-2305 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2305
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16270
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055957.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055882.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055881.html
HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBMU02752
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2
HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT100802
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN37417423/index.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:049
http://cxib.net/stuff/vspoc232.c
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0337.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025186
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8109
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/95
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2011:009 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-05/msg00005.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1098-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0547
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0639
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0668
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0713
XForce ISS Database: vsftpd-vsffilenamepassesfilter-dos(65873)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65873
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