Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-9274 - Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-2123.NASL description An uninitialized pointer vulnerability was discovered in pure-ftpd, a secure and efficient FTP server, which could result in an out-of-bounds memory read and potential information disclosure. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2020-02-28 plugin id 134126 published 2020-02-28 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134126 title Debian DLA-2123-1 : pure-ftpd security update code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-2123-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(134126); script_version("1.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/10"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-9274"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-2123-1 : pure-ftpd security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "An uninitialized pointer vulnerability was discovered in pure-ftpd, a secure and efficient FTP server, which could result in an out-of-bounds memory read and potential information disclosure. For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1. We recommend that you upgrade your pure-ftpd packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/pure-ftpd" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected packages."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pure-ftpd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pure-ftpd-common"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pure-ftpd-ldap"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pure-ftpd-mysql"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:pure-ftpd-postgresql"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/02/27"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/02/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("debian_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"pure-ftpd", reference:"1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"pure-ftpd-common", reference:"1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"pure-ftpd-ldap", reference:"1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"pure-ftpd-mysql", reference:"1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"8.0", prefix:"pure-ftpd-postgresql", reference:"1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-FA83EA0492.NASL description Fix CVE-2020-9365 and CVE-2020-9274 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-21 modified 2020-05-15 plugin id 136634 published 2020-05-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136634 title Fedora 30 : pure-ftpd (2020-fa83ea0492) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-fa83ea0492. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136634); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/19"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-9274", "CVE-2020-9365"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2020-fa83ea0492"); script_name(english:"Fedora 30 : pure-ftpd (2020-fa83ea0492)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Fix CVE-2020-9365 and CVE-2020-9274 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-fa83ea0492" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected pure-ftpd package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pure-ftpd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^30([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 30", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC30", reference:"pure-ftpd-1.0.49-5.fc30")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pure-ftpd"); }
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-84FB0920FD.NASL description Fix CVE-2020-9365 and CVE-2020-9274 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-21 modified 2020-05-15 plugin id 136632 published 2020-05-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136632 title Fedora 31 : pure-ftpd (2020-84fb0920fd) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2020-84fb0920fd. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(136632); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/19"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-9274", "CVE-2020-9365"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2020-84fb0920fd"); script_name(english:"Fedora 31 : pure-ftpd (2020-84fb0920fd)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Fix CVE-2020-9365 and CVE-2020-9274 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-84fb0920fd" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected pure-ftpd package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pure-ftpd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/05/15"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^31([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 31", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC31", reference:"pure-ftpd-1.0.49-5.fc31")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_WARNING, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "pure-ftpd"); }
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-202003-54.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-54 (Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pure-FTPd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or cause an information disclosure. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-03-31 modified 2020-03-26 plugin id 134929 published 2020-03-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134929 title GLSA-202003-54 : Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202003-54. # # The advisory text is Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. # and licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike # license. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(134929); script_version("1.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/30"); script_cve_id("CVE-2020-9274", "CVE-2020-9365"); script_xref(name:"GLSA", value:"202003-54"); script_name(english:"GLSA-202003-54 : Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package(s) in /var/db/pkg"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-54 (Pure-FTPd: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pure-FTPd. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or cause an information disclosure. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value: "All Pure-FTPd users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-ftp/pure-ftpd-1.0.49-r2'" ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:pure-ftpd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:gentoo:linux"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2020/02/24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2020/03/25"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2020/03/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Gentoo Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Gentoo/release", "Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("qpkg.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Gentoo"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (qpkg_check(package:"net-ftp/pure-ftpd", unaffected:make_list("ge 1.0.49-r2"), vulnerable:make_list("lt 1.0.49-r2"))) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:qpkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else { tested = qpkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "Pure-FTPd"); }
References
- https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/8d0d42542e2cb7a56d645fbe4d0ef436e38bcefa
- https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/8d0d42542e2cb7a56d645fbe4d0ef436e38bcefa
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22P44PECZWNDP7CMBL7NRBMNFS73C5Z2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22P44PECZWNDP7CMBL7NRBMNFS73C5Z2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5NSUDWXZVWUCL6R2PTX3KBB42Z62CA5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5NSUDWXZVWUCL6R2PTX3KBB42Z62CA5/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5DBVHJCXWRSJPNJQCJQCKZF6ZDPZCKA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5DBVHJCXWRSJPNJQCJQCKZF6ZDPZCKA/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4515-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4515-1/
- https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news/
- https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news/