Fedora 13 : vsftpd-2.3.4-1.fc13 (2011-2615)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52663

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Thu Mar 3 2011 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.3.4-1

- update to latest upstream 2.3.4

- fixes #681935 - CVE-2011-0762 vsftpd: remote DoS via crafted glob pattern

- Mon May 17 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.2.2-7

- when listen_ipv6=YES sets socket option to listen IPv6 only

- Fri May 14 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.2.2-6

- syscall(__NR_clone) replaced by clone() to fix incorrect order of params on s390 arch

- Wed Apr 7 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.2.2-5

- corrected daemonize_plus patch - don't try kill parent when vsftpd isn't daemonized

- Tue Mar 16 2010 Jiri Skala <jskala at redhat.com> - 2.2.2-4

- fixes #544251 - /etc/rc.d/init.d/vsftpd does not start more than one daemon

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected vsftpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681667

http://www.nessus.org/u?dc2d56a3

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52663

File Name: fedora_2011-2615.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/15/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:vsftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:13

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/4/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0762

BID: 46617

FEDORA: 2011-2615