Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-pyftpdlib (opens in a new tab)
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- published19 Aug 2020
- disclosed19 Oct 2010
Introduced: 19 Oct 2010
CVE-2008-7264 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-pyftpdlib package and not the python-pyftpdlib package as distributed by Debian.
The ftp_QUIT function in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and daemon outage) by sending a QUIT command during a disallowed data-transfer attempt.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7264
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=71
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=344
- http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn344&r=344&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/ftpserver.py