CVE-2019-19269 Null dereference in n/a

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

A NULL pointer dereference in ProFTPD causes a crash when validating client certificates with an empty CRL, requiring mutual authentication.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-19269?

CVE-2019-19269 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 26 Nov 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD through 1.3.6b. A dereference of a NULL pointer may occur. This pointer is returned by the OpenSSL sk_X509_REVOKED_value() function when encountering an empty CRL installed by a system administrator. The dereference occurs when validating the certificate of a client connecting to the server in a TLS client/server mutual-authentication setup.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19269?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Proftpd Proftpd.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19269?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2019-19269 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19269 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-19269, DLA-2018-1, GHSA-46rx-rvqp-8rxj, MGASA-2019-0385, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-19269.

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