Debian Security Advisory

DSA-473-1 oftpd -- denial of service

Date Reported:

03 Apr 2004

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 216871.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9980.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0376.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in oftpd, an anonymous FTP server, whereby a remote attacker could cause the oftpd process to crash by specifying a large value in a PORT command.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.6-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 20040304-1.

We recommend that you update your oftpd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_hppa.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oftpd/oftpd_0.3.6-6_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.