Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-4515-1

USN-4515-1: Pure-FTPd vulnerability

Publication date

17 September 2020

Overview

Pure-FTPd could be made to expose sensitive information if it recieved specially crafted input.

Releases

16.04 LTS

Packages

pure-ftpd - Secure and efficient FTP server

Details

Antonio Norales discovered that Pure-FTPd incorrectly handled directory
aliases. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive
information. (CVE-2020-9274)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
16.04 xenial	pure-ftpd – 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	pure-ftpd-common – 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	pure-ftpd-ldap – 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	pure-ftpd-mysql – 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
	pure-ftpd-postgresql – 1.0.36-3.2+deb8u1build0.16.04.1

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References

CVE-2020-9274

CVE-2020-9274