Bug 457274 - filezilla: unhandled SSL/TLS errors causing unnoticed incomplete downloads
Summary: filezilla: unhandled SSL/TLS errors causing unnoticed incomplete downloads
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-30 16:10 UTC by Tomas Hoger
Modified: 2008-08-01 01:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 3.1.0.1-1.fc8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-08-01 01:47:24 UTC
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-07-30 16:10:55 UTC
FileZilla Client version 3.1.0.1 fixes a minor security issue:

Quoting upstream news page:

FileZilla 3.1.0.1 fixes a vulnerability regarding the way some errors are
handled on SSL/TLS secured data transfers.

If the data connection of a transfer gets closed, FileZilla did not check if the
server performed an orderly TLS shutdown.

Impact:
An attacker could send spoofed FIN packets to the client. Even though GnuTLS
detects this with GNUTLS_E_UNEXPECTED_PACKET_LENGTH, FileZilla did not record a
transfer failure in all cases.

Unfortunately not all servers perform an orderly SSL/TLS shutdown. Since this
cannot be distinguished from an attack, FileZilla will not be able to download
listings or files from such servers.

Affected versions:
All versions prior to 3.1.0.1 are affected. This vulnerability has been fixed in
3.1.0.1

Reference:
http://filezilla-project.org/

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-07-30 20:08:55 UTC
filezilla-3.1.0.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update filezilla'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-6865

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-08-01 01:47:17 UTC
filezilla-3.1.0.1-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-08-01 01:49:48 UTC
filezilla-3.1.0.1-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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