68985 : ProFTPD netio.c pr_netio_telnet_gets Function TELNET_IAC Escape Sequence Remote Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
36	1339	about 1 year ago	about 1 year ago	24 times	100%

Timeline

Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Solution Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2010-09-24	2010-10-29	2010-11-01	2010-11-04

Time to Patch
35 days

Keywords

ZDI-CAN-925, TippingPoint IPS Digital Vaccine protection filter ID 10641, TCP Port 21

Description

ProFTPD is prone to an overflow condition. The TELNET_IAC Escape Sequence handling fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input resulting in a stack overflow. With a specially crafted request, a remote attacker can potentially cause the executition of arbitrary code.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.3.3c or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

The ProFTPD Project	ProFTPD	1.3.2rc3
		1.3.3a
		1.3.3b

References

CVE ID: 2010-4221 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 42047 42052 42217
Bugtraq ID: 44562
Metasploit ID: 68985 68985
Related OSVDB ID: 68988
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/NEWS-1.3.3c
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050703.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-November/050726.html
Mail List Post: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Nov/49
Vendor URL: http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.498209
Other Advisory URL: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-229/

Tools & Filters

	50544

Credit

Anonymous - Zero Day Initiative (ZDI)

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-11-10 | Disagree? | There are 1 more: View All

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