[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: proftpd-1.3.2b-1.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-11649
2009-11-18 13:31:57
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Name        : proftpd
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.3.2b
Release     : 1.fc11
URL         : http://www.proftpd.org/
Summary     : Flexible, stable and highly-configurable FTP server
Description :
ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security,
and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration
syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for
multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory
visibility.

This package defaults to the standalone behaviour of ProFTPD, but all the
needed scripts to have it run by xinetd instead are included.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2009-3639, in which proftpd's mod_tls, when the
dNSNameRequired TLS option is enabled, does not properly handle a '\0' character
in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 client
certificate. This allows remote attackers to bypass intended client-hostname
restrictions via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification
Authority.    This update to upstream release 1.3.2b also fixes the following
issues recorded in the proftpd bug tracker at bugs.proftpd.org:    - Regression
causing command-line define options not to work (bug 3221)  - Use correct cached
user values with "SQLNegativeCache on" (bug 3282)  - Slower transfers of
multiple small files (bug 3284)  - Support MaxTransfersPerHost,
MaxTransfersPerUser properly (bug 3287)  - Handle symlinks to directories with
trailing slashes properly (bug 3297)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Oct 21 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2b-1
- Update to 1.3.2b
  - Fixed regression causing command-line define options not to work (bug 3221)
  - Fixed SSL/TLS cert subjectAltName verification (bug 3275, CVE-2009-3639)
  - Use correct cached user values with "SQLNegativeCache on" (bug 3282)
  - Fix slower transfers of multiple small files (bug 3284)
  - Support MaxTransfersPerHost, MaxTransfersPerUser properly (bug 3287)
  - Handle symlinks to directories with trailing slashes properly (bug 3297)
- Drop upstreamed defines patch (bug 3221)
* Thu Sep 17 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-7
- Restore backward SRPM compatibility broken by previous change
* Wed Sep 16 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.3.2a-6
- Use password-auth common PAM configuration instead of system-auth
* Mon Sep  7 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-5
- Add upstream patch for MLSD with dirnames containing glob chars (#521634)
* Wed Sep  2 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-4
- New DSO module: mod_exec (#520214)
* Fri Aug 21 2009 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.3.2a-3.1
- Rebuilt with new openssl
* Wed Aug 19 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-3
- Use mod_vroot to work around PAM/chroot issues (#477120, #506735)
* Fri Jul 31 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-2
- Add upstream patch to fix parallel build (http://bugs.proftpd.org/3189)
* Mon Jul 27 2009 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 1.3.2a-1
- Update to 1.3.2a
- Add patch to reinstate support for -DPARAMETER (http://bugs.proftpd.org/3221)
- Retain CAP_AUDIT_WRITE, needed for pam_loginuid (#506735, fixed upstream)
- Remove ScoreboardFile directive from configuration file - default value
  works better with SELinux (#498375)
- Ship mod_quotatab_sql.so in the main package rather than the SQL backend
  subpackages
- New DSO modules:
  - mod_ctrls_admin
  - mod_facl
  - mod_load
  - mod_quotatab_radius
  - mod_radius
  - mod_ratio
  - mod_rewrite
  - mod_site_misc
  - mod_wrap2
  - mod_wrap2_file
  - mod_wrap2_sql
- Enable mod_lang/nls support for RFC 2640 (and buildreq gettext)
- Add /etc/sysconfig/proftpd to set PROFTPD_OPTIONS and update initscript to
  use this value so we can use a define to enable (e.g.) anonymous FTP support
  rather than having a huge commented-out section in the config file
- Rewrite config file to remove most settings that don't change upstream
  defaults, and add brief descriptions for all available loadable modules
- Move Umask and IdentLookups settings from server config to <Global> context
  so that they apply to all servers, including virtual hosts (#509251)
- Ensure mod_ifsession is always the last one specified, which makes sure that
  mod_ifsession's changes are seen properly by other modules
- Drop pam version requirement - all targets have sufficiently recent version
- Drop redundant explicit dependency on pam
- Subpackages don't need to own %{_libexecdir}/proftpd directory
- Drop redundant krb5-devel buildreq
- Make SRPM back-compatible with EPEL-4 (TLS cert dirs, PAM config)
- Don't include README files for non-Linux platforms
- Recode ChangeLog as UTF-8
- Don't ship the prxs tool for building custom DSO's since we don't ship the
  headers either
- Prevent stripping of binaries in a slightly more robust way
- Fix release tag to be ready for future beta/rc versions
- Define RPM macros in global scope
- BuildRequire libcap-devel so that we use the system library rather than the
  bundled one, and eliminate log messages like:
  kernel: warning: `proftpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use)
* Sun Jul 26 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> 1.3.2-3.1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #530719 - CVE-2009-3639 ProFTPD: Doesn't properly handle NULL character in subjectAltName
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530719
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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