CVE-2001-0456

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a higher privilege than intended.

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a higher privilege than intended.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-06-27 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Debian Debian Linux 2.2

2.2

References

DSA-032

Patch, Vendor Advisory

proftpd-postinst-root(6208)

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