Trustix Secure Linux Advisory: proftpd

Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2003-0037

Package description:
ProFTPd is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity,
security, and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like
configuration syntax, and a highly customizable server
infrastructure, including support for multiple ‘virtual’ FTP
servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.

Problem description:
An error exists in the ASCII upload handling of Proftpd version
1.2.7 and later that can be used to trigger an buffer overflow and
thus execute arbitrary code. This has now been fixed.

Action:
We recommend that all systems with this package installed be
upgraded. Please note that if you do not need the functionality
provided by this package, you may want to remove it from your
system.

Location:
All TSL updates are available from
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>

<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>

About Trustix Secure Linux:
Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers.
With focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept
safe and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software
updater.

Automatic updates:
Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
installed using ‘swup –upgrade’.

Public testing:
These packages have been available for public testing for some
time. If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in
the testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
tsl-discuss mailinglist.
The testing tree is located at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>

<URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>

You may also use swup for public testing of updates for TSL 2.0
and later:

  site {
      class = 0
      location = "http://snow.trustix.org/cloud/rdfs/latest.rdf"
      regexp = ".*"
  }

Questions?
Check out our mailing lists:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>

Verification:
This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL
sign key. This key is available from:
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>

The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.2/>,

<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>
and
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-2.0/>

or directly at
<URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2003/TSL-2003-0037-proftpd.asc.txt>

MD5sums of the packages:

429165d5e6335e8ee002184ae91d3fa9
./1.2/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-10tr.i586.rpm
ffc555898ba64d98ccdbc63965ebb5b8
./1.2/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-10tr.src.rpm
0f8bb15841f731d1e8871d2c12736680
./1.5/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-10tr.i586.rpm
ffc555898ba64d98ccdbc63965ebb5b8
./1.5/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-10tr.src.rpm
6656d385bc41273678a4b426fb4ba2db
./2.0/RPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-9tr.i586.rpm
842153ad2b1a982568af28c5be0ff2be
./2.0/SRPMS/proftpd-1.2.8-9tr.src.rpm

Trustix Security Team