Debian Security Advisory

DSA-896-1 linux-ftpd-ssl -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
15 Nov 2005
Affected Packages:
linux-ftpd-ssl
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 339074.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3524.
More information:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in ftpd-ssl, a simple BSD FTP server with SSL encryption support, that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain linux-ftpd-ssl packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.17.18+0.3-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your ftpd-ssl package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/linux-ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/linux-ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/linux-ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-ftpd-ssl/ftpd-ssl_0.17.18+0.3-3sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.