CVE-2020-9274
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CVE-2020-9274 is a high-severity vulnerability rated 7.5/10 on the CVSS scale. An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. EPSS estimates a 5.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Pureftpd | Pure-Ftpd | < 1.0.50 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 8.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux | 8.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 30 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 31 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 32 |
| Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 16.04 |
References
- https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/8d0d42542e2cb7a56d645fbe4d0ef436e38bcefaPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4515-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news/Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/8d0d42542e2cb7a56d645fbe4d0ef436e38bcefaPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4515-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news/Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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