Re: CVE request: pure-ftpd denial of service in glob_()

[Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro () redhat com>]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, cve-assign () mitre org wrote:

> > https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/0627004e23a24108785dc1506c5767392b90f807
>
> Can you clarify the security impact? We have not looked into the code
> paths or the overall product design. Is this a process that is
> specific to one FTP client? Is the problem that the gl_errfunc
> assignment doesn't occur and there is always a dereference of a NULL
> function pointer? Is there a commonly relevant consequence other than
> the ability of an FTP client to conduct a DoS attack against its own
> session?

As per [1]:

It won't crash the whole service, only the user session. It is
not going to block and dump a core file either, except if compiled in
DEBUG mode.

It appears that there's no security impact here, please disregard this
CVE request.

[1]: https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/0627004e23a24108785dc1506c5767392b90f807#commitcomment-11764342

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