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Bug 1439693 (CVE-2017-7418) - CVE-2017-7418 proftpd: AllowChrootSymlinks control bypass
Summary: CVE-2017-7418 proftpd: AllowChrootSymlinks control bypass
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7418
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1439695 1439696
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-06 12:09 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:09 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: proftpd 1.3.5e, proftpd 1.3.6rc5
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Last Closed: 2019-04-11 07:52:56 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-06 12:09:57 UTC 
ProFTPD before 1.3.5e and 1.3.6 before 1.3.6rc5 controls whether the home directory of a user could contain a symbolic link through the AllowChrootSymlinks configuration option, but checks only the last path component when enforcing AllowChrootSymlinks. Attackers with local access could bypass the AllowChrootSymlinks control by replacing a path component (other than the last one) with a symbolic link. The threat model includes an attacker who is not granted full filesystem access by a hosting provider, but can reconfigure the home directory of an FTP user.

Upstream patch (1.3.5 branch):

https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/commit/ecff21e0d0e84f35c299ef91d7fda088e516d4ed

Upstream bug:

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4295
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-06 12:10:31 UTC 
Created proftpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1439696]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1439695]
Comment 2 customercare 2017-04-19 13:12:54 UTC 
The patch is buggy: See Bugreport #1443507
Comment 3 customercare 2017-12-14 13:38:18 UTC 
FIXED and released on 2017-05-12 15:23:46 EDT 

Please close this BR.
Comment 4 Alasdair Kergon 2019-04-08 14:42:03 UTC 
See bug 1697508, asking if this can be closed.
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