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MGASA-2015-0485

Updated proftpd packages fix security vulnerabilities

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Updated proftpd packages fix security vulnerability:

Part of the SFTP handshake involves "extensions", which are key/value pairs, comprised of strings. In SSH, strings are encoded for network transport as a 32-bit length, followed by the bytes. The mod_sftp module currently places no bounds/length limitations when reading these SFTP extension key/value data from the network. A malicious attacker might attempt to encode large values, and allocate more memory than is necessary, causing excessive resource usage or the FTP daemon to crash (proftpd#4210).

This update also includes a fix for a crash in mod_lang (proftpd#4206).

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Updated proftpd packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated proftpd packages fix security vulnerability:

Part of the SFTP handshake involves "extensions", which are key/value pairs, comprised of strings. In SSH, strings are encoded for network transport as a 32-bit length, followed by the bytes. The mod_sftp module currently places no bounds/length limitations when reading these SFTP extension key/value data from the network. A malicious attacker might attempt to encode large values, and allocate more memory than is necessary, causing excessive resource usage or the FTP daemon to crash (proftpd#4210).

This update also includes a fix for a crash in mod_lang (proftpd#4206).

Record
MGASA-2015-0485
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
proftpd
Mageia:5
before 1.3.5-5.1.mga5
1.3.5-5.1.mga5

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In short

MGASA-2015-0485 is a vulnerability with no CVSS score yet in proftpd, published December 24, 2015. No source lists public exploit code. Fixed in proftpd 1.3.5-5.1.mga5.

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