Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1408 - vsftpd bug fix update

Synopsis

vsftpd bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated vsftpd packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The vsftpd packages include a Very Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) daemon, which is used to serve files over a network.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the "local_max_rate" option did not work as expected. As a consequence, the transmission speed was significantly lower. This update extends the types of variables for calculating and accumulating the amount of transferred data and postpones the start of evaluation after the tenth evaluation. (BZ#1063401)

  • Previously, vsftpd server could not handle the use of "pam_exec.so" in the "pam.d" configuration file. Consequently, the vsftpd server considered new processes created by the "pam_exe.so" module to be its own and therefore attempted to catch them. When the processes were caught by "pam_exec.so", the vsftpd server became unresponsive. A patch has been applied to fix this bug, and the vsftpd server no longer hangs in the described situation. (BZ#1092877)

Users of vsftpd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. The vsftpd daemon must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x

Updated Packages

  • vsftpd-debuginfo-2.2.2-14.el6.s390x.rpm
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-14.el6.i686.rpm
  • vsftpd-debuginfo-2.2.2-14.el6.i686.rpm
  • vsftpd-debuginfo-2.2.2-14.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-14.el6.src.rpm
  • vsftpd-debuginfo-2.2.2-14.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • vsftpd-2.2.2-14.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information