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Fedora 16 : proftpd-1.3.4-1.fc16 (2011-15765)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56896

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update, to the current upstream stable release, includes a pair of security fixes :

 - Enable OpenSSL countermeasure against SSLv3/TLSv1 BEAST attacks (upstream bug 3704); to disable this countermeasure, which may cause interoperability issues with some clients, use the NoEmptyFragments TLSOption

 - Response pool use-after-free memory corruption error (upstream bug 3711, #752812, ZDI-CAN-1420, CVE-2011-4130), in which a remote attacker could provide a specially crafted request (resulting in a need for the server to handle an exceptional condition), leading to memory corruption and potentially arbitrary code execution, with the privileges of the user running the proftpd server

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 proftpd package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752812

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf3bb0d9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56896

File Name: fedora_2011-15765.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/22/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:proftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4130

FEDORA: 2011-15765