Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : proftpd (MDKSA-2001:021)

The ProFTPD FTP server has problems with memory leaking that could be used in a DoS attack, as reported by Wojciech Purczynski. A memory leak will happen every time a SIZE command was given provided that the scoreboard file is not writable, which is not the case in a default Linux-Mandrake...

Response to ProFTPD issues

======= Summary ======= Three issues with the ProFTPD FTP server have been reported to BUGTRAQ in the past month. These issues have been addressed by the ProFTPD core team. The following vulnerabilities are addressed in this advisory: 1. "SIZE memory leak"...