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pure-ftpd — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9274

An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.

Products
pure-ftpd
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.0.49-4
CVEs
CVE-2020-9274
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 13:15 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9274

core-osv · Original source

Published 26 Feb 2020, 16:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the *lookup_alias(const char alias) or print_aliases(void) function is called, they fail to correctly detect the end of the linked list and try to access a non-existent list member. This is related to init_aliases in diraliases.c.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-9274

pure-ftpd

Fixed versions: 1.0.49-4

pure-ftpd

Fixed versions: 1.0.49-4

Complete source record
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