pure-ftpd — security advisory
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
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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