Bug 1809288

Summary:	CVE-2020-9272 proftpd: out-of-bounds read in cap_to_text in cap_text.c [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	proftpd	Assignee:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	epel7	CC:	ingvar, itamar, matthias, paul
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Bug Blocks:	1809286

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-03-02 19:10:45 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of epel-all.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora EPEL. While
only one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions
at the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each
other, you may clone this bug as appropriate.

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-03-02 19:10:47 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1809286,1809288

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Paul Howarth 2020-03-03 08:26:25 UTC

This problem manifests as a result of building with the very old version of libcap that was bundled with the proftpd sources, which did not support 64-bit capabilities. These were introduced in libcap after the version 1.10 release of the library. The proftpd builds in Fedora and EPEL use the system version of libcap rather than the bundled version, and the system version in all current EL and Fedora releases is greater than 2.0, hence those proftpd builds are not vulnerable to this issue.