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Fedora alert FEDORA-2013-16798 (proftpd)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: proftpd-1.3.4d-4.fc19
Date:  Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:30:35 +0000
Message-ID:  <20130924003034.F278F2260E@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2013-16798 2013-09-15 23:16:19 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : proftpd Product : Fedora 19 Version : 1.3.4d Release : 4.fc19 URL : http://www.proftpd.org/ Summary : Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server 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. This package defaults to the standalone behavior of ProFTPD, but all the needed scripts to have it run by xinetd instead are included. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update addresses an issue with mod_sftp and mod_sftp_pam in which a malicious client could cause the server to make extremely large memory requests and potentially crash. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Sat Sep 14 2013 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.3.4d-4 - Fix mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication (#1007678, upstream bug #3973) * Sun Aug 4 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> 1.3.4d-2.2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild * Wed Jul 17 2013 Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com> 1.3.4d-2.1 - Perl 5.18 rebuild * Mon Jun 17 2013 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.3.4d-2 - Fix spurious log messages at session close (upstream bug #3945) * Sat Jun 15 2013 Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> 1.3.4d-1 - Update to 1.3.4d - Fixed broken build when using --disable-ipv6 configure option - Fixed mod_sql "SQLAuthType Backend" MySQL issues - Various other bugs fixed - see NEWS for details - Drop upstreamed patch for PAM session closing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1007679 - proftpd: mod_sftp/mod_sftp_pam invalid pool allocation during kbdint authentication [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007679 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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