<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200502-26"> <title>GProFTPD: gprostats format string vulnerability</title> <synopsis> gprostats, distributed with GProFTPD, is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">GProFTPD</product> <announced>2005-02-18</announced> <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised> <bug>81894</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-ftp/gproftpd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">8.1.9</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">8.1.9</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> GProFTPD is a GTK+ administration tool for the ProFTPD server. GProFTPD is distributed with gprostats, a utility to parse ProFTPD transfer logs. </p> </background> <description> <p> Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team has identified a format string vulnerability in the gprostats utility. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by performing a specially crafted FTP transfer, the resulting ProFTPD transfer log could potentially trigger the execution of arbitrary code when parsed by GProFTPD. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All GProFTPD users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-ftp/gproftpd-8.1.9"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0484">CVE-2005-0484</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2005-02-16T19:27:51Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-02-17T00:01:48Z"> taviso </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-02-18T09:37:53Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>