Summary
The remote host is missing an update to proftpd-dfsg announced via advisory DSA 1689-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201689-1
Insight
Maksymilian Arciemowicz of securityreason.com reported that ProFTPD is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and executes arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI that leverages an existing session from the FTP client implementation in a web browser.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.0-19etch2 and in version 1.3.1-15~bpo40+1 for backports.
For the testing (lenny) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.1-15.
We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd-dfsg package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-4242 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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