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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-9273: Vulnerability in ProFTPD

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2020-9273: Vulnerability in ProFTPD

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/20/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

In ProFTPD 1.3.7, it is possible to corrupt the memory pool by interrupting the data transfer channel. This triggers a use-after-free in alloc_pool in pool.c, and possible remote code execution.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-service-network-ftp-1-3-6-11-4-21-0-1-69-0

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