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Fedora 24 : proftpd (2017-e15e37b689)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 99446

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Current upstream maintenance release for the 1.3.5 series.

Includes fix for CVE-2017-7418, where not all path elements were checked for symlinks when using a chroot, so attackers with local access could bypass the AllowChrootSymlinks control by replacing a path component (other than the last one) with a symbolic link.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
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://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-e15e37b689

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 99446

File Name: fedora_2017-e15e37b689.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/19/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:proftpd, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7418