Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-0064 (proftpd)

Summary
The remote host is missing an update to proftpd announced via advisory FEDORA-2009-0064.
Solution
Apply the appropriate updates. This update can be installed with the yum update program. Use su -c 'yum update proftpd' at the command line. For more information, refer to Managing Software with yum, available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FEDORA-2009-0064
Insight
Update Information: This update fixes a security issue where an attacker could conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands. It also fixes some SSL shutdown issues seen with certain clients. ChangeLog: * Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-8 - Update default configuration to have a lit of available modules and more example configuration for them. - Include patches to fix TLS issues (#457280). * Fri Jan 2 2009 Matthias Saou 1.3.1-7 - Add Debian patch to fix CSRF vulnerability (#464127, upstream #3115).
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