[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: proftpd-1.3.3e-1.el6

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2011-3016
2011-04-08 20:02:40
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Name        : proftpd
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 1.3.3e
Release     : 1.el6
URL         : http://www.proftpd.org/
Summary     : Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server
Description :
ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security,
and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration
syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for
multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory
visibility.

This package defaults to the standalone behavior of ProFTPD, but all the
needed scripts to have it run by xinetd instead are included.

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Update Information:

This update, to the current upstream maintenance release, fixes a large number of bugs (see NEWS for details), and also a couple of security issues:

* Plaintext command injection vulnerability in FTPS implementation (i.e. mod_tls). See http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3624 for details.

* CVE-2011-1137 (badly formed SSH messages cause DoS). See http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3586 for details.

Other highlights include:

* Display messages work properly again.

* Performance improvements, especially during server startup/restarts.

* mod_vroot updated to 0.9.2 (latest release)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #681718 - CVE-2011-1137 proftpd: integer overflow in mod_sftp
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681718
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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