Vulnerability in Debian Linux

CVE-2001-0456

postinst installation script for Proftpd in Debian 2.2 does not properly change the "run as uid/gid root" configuration when the user enables anonymous access, which causes the server to run at a higher privilege than intended.

EPSS: 0.059 (92.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Debian Debian_linux — versions 2.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_DEBIAN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)