Hi, thanks for the bug report.

As there is no maintainer of this package, I add the committers in the CC list.

CC: (none) => ennael1, mageia, misc, pterjan

Ping ?

Mandriva has issued this update:
http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2011-12/msg00003.php

CC: (none) => luigiwalser

Please test  proftpd-1.3.3g that fixes this CVE

CC: (none) => dmorganec
Assignee: bugsquad => qa-bugs

No POC but the vulnerability involved the use of SSL so testing with mod_tls

x86_64

To test I installed proftpd and proftpd-mod_tls

I largely followed the configuration instructions here substituting some paths:-
http://www.howtoforge.com/setting-up-proftpd-tls-on-ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx

# mkdir /etc/proftpd.d/ssl

# openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -out /etc/proftpd.d/ssl/proftpd.cert.pem -keyout /etc/proftpd.d/ssl/proftpd.key.pem

Enter the requested information, it doesn't have to be real.

Edit /etc/proftpd.conf and look for the part below :-

<IfModule mod_tls.c>
TLSEngine                  off
</IfModule>

Change it to..

<IfModule mod_tls.c>
TLSEngine                  on
TLSLog                     /var/log/proftpd/tls.log
TLSProtocol                SSLv23
TLSOptions                 NoCertRequest AllowClientRenegotiations
TLSRSACertificateFile      /etc/proftpd.d/ssl/proftpd.cert.pem
TLSRSACertificateKeyFile   /etc/proftpd.d/ssl/proftpd.key.pem
TLSVerifyClient            off
TLSRequired                on
</IfModule>

Save it and restart proftpd. If you need to accept non encrypted connections aswell then TLSRequired can be set to off.

# service proftpd restart
Stopping proftpd                                                [  OK  ]
Starting proftpd                                                [  OK  ]


I used FileZilla to connect to localhost with the following settings :-

Host: localhost
Port: Empty
Protocol: FTP
Encryption: Require explicit FTP over TLS
Logon Type: Normal
User: <Linux username>
Password: <Linux user password>

Connected and was able to access my home directory. When it connects it asks to accept the certificate. No regressions noticed after the update.

Testing complete x86_64

Hardware: i586 => All

Testing complete on i586 using same procedure as Comment 5 (Thanks Claire),
except running filezilla in a vb mageia 1 guest, with proftpd on the host.

Could someone from the sysadmin team push the srpm
proftpd-1.3.3g-0.1.mga1.src.rpm
from Core Updates Testing to Core Updates.

Advisory: This security update for proftpd corrects a use-after-free
memory corruption error.  See
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Critical-bug-in-ProFTPD-closed-1377080.html
for more information.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3311

Keywords: (none) => validated_update
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs

update pushed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => tmb
Resolution: (none) => FIXED