Security Advisory SA42449 - ProFTPD Compromised Source Packages Backdoor Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA42449

ProFTPD Compromised Source Packages Backdoor Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA42449

Release Date

2010-12-02

Last Update

2011-02-16

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Software:

ProFTPD 1.3.x

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Description

A security issue has been reported in ProFTPD, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The security issue is caused due to the distribution of compromised ProFTPD 1.3.3c source code packages via the project's main FTP server and all of the mirror servers, which contain a backdoor allowing remote root access.

The compromised files were distributed from November 28th 2010 to December 2nd 2010 and on November 16th 2010 between 08:00 UTC and 13:00 UTC.

Solution
Check and validate your copy of the source code.
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The vendor credits Daniel Austin for reporting the modification of the source code.

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Original Advisory
http://www.proftpd.org/index.html
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=alpine.DEB.2.00.1012011542220.12930%40familiar.castaglia.org

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