CVE-2019-18217

Description

ProFTPD before 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before 1.3.7rc2 allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinite loop.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4559

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/7

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YLRPYEEMQJVAXO2SXRGOQ4HBFEEPCNXG/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RB2FPAWDWXT5ALAFIC5Y3RSEMXSFL6H2/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJDQRVZTILBX4BUCTIRKP2WBHDHDCJR5/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00036.html

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/846

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/NEWS

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/RELEASE_NOTES

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/NEWS

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-940889.pdf

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00009.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3