CVE-2019-18217 Information

Description

ProFTPD before 1.3.6b and 1.3.7rc before 1.3.7rc2 allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service due to incorrect handling of overly long commands because main.c in a child process enters an infinite loop.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00009.html https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-940889.pdf https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/NEWS https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/1.3.6/RELEASE_NOTES https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/NEWS https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/846 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00036.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NJDQRVZTILBX4BUCTIRKP2WBHDHDCJR5/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RB2FPAWDWXT5ALAFIC5Y3RSEMXSFL6H2/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YLRPYEEMQJVAXO2SXRGOQ4HBFEEPCNXG/ https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Nov/7 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35 https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4559

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5