CVE-2008-4242 Information

Description

ProFTPD 1.3.1 interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.

Reference

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3115 http://secunia.com/advisories/31930 http://secunia.com/advisories/33261 http://secunia.com/advisories/33413 http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/56 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4313 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1689 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:061 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31289 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020945 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45274 proftpd-url-csrf(45274) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00078.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00245.html