gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202305-03.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202305-03">
    <title>ProFTPd: Memory Disclosure</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in ProFTPd which could result in memory disclosure.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">proftpd</product>
    <announced>2023-05-03</announced>
    <revised count="1">2023-05-03</revised>
    <bug>811495</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-ftp/proftpd" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">1.3.7c</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">1.3.7c</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>ProFTPd unconditionally sends passwords to Radius servers for authentication in multiples of 16 bytes. If a password is not of a length that is a multiple of 16 bytes, ProFTPd will read beyond the end of the password string and send bytes beyond the end of the string buffer.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>Radius servers used for authentication can receive the contents of the ProFTPd process&#39; memory.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All ProFTPd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.7c"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-46854">CVE-2021-46854</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:13:03.619655Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2023-05-03T09:13:03.623017Z">sam</metadata>
</glsa>