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TITLE:
ProFTPD Character Encoding SQL Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33842

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http://secunia.com/advisories/33842/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
ProFTPD 1.3.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/5430/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in ProFTPD, which can be exploited
by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application improperly setting
the character encoding prior to performing SQL queries. This can be
exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code
in an environment using a multi-byte character encoding.

Successful exploitation requires that NLS support is enabled.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.3.1 and later.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/NEWS-1.3.2
http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3173

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