Re: vsftpd problem in deny_hosts

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:28:36AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> IBM reported to us a problem in vsftpd deny_hosts problem.
>
> CVE-2015-1419
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915522
>
> Description;
>  Set the option "deny_file" in /etc/vsftpd.conf on a top-directory (for example "deny_file=/home/*")
>  Then log in with ftp and try to cd to "/home/" first, which will fail, then try to cd to "/./home/" which will 
> succeed!
>  The latter case shouldn't be possible as well!

What does upstream say about this?  (CC'ing.)

Alexander