ProFTPD is an advanced and very configurable FTP server.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ProFTPd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
A remote attacker, by interrupting the data transfer channel, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All ProFTPd users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/proftpd-1.3.6c"