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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2305-1] vsftpd security update

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Mon Sep 19 06:10:01 2011
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2305-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde September 19, 2011 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : vsftpd
    Vulnerability : denial of service
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    Debian bug : 622741 629373
    CVE IDs : CVE-2011-0762 CVE-2011-2189

    Two security issue have been discovered that affect vsftpd, a lightweight, efficient FTP server written for security.

    CVE-2011-2189

    It was discovered that Linux kernels < 2.6.35 are considerably slower in
    releasing than in the creation of network namespaces. As a result of this
    and because vsftpd is using this feature as a security enhancement to
    provide network isolation for connections, it is possible to cause denial
    of service conditions due to excessive memory allocations by the kernel.
    This is technically no vsftpd flaw, but a kernel issue. However, this
    feature has legitimate use cases and backporting the specific kernel patch
    is too intrusive. Additionally, a local attacker requires the CAP_SYS_ADMIN
    capability to abuse this functionality. Therefore, as a fix, a kernel
    version check has been added to vsftpd in order to disable this feature
    for kernels < 2.6.35.

    CVE-2011-0762

    Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that vsftpd is incorrectly handling
    certain glob expressions in STAT commands. This allows a remote authenticated
    attacker to conduct denial of service attacks (excessive CPU and process
    slot exhaustion) via crafted STAT commands.

    For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.0.7-1+lenny1.

    For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.3.2-3+squeeze2. Please note that CVE-2011-2189 does not affect
    the lenny version.

    For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem will be fixed soon.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.3.4-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your vsftpd packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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