CVE-2019-19269

MEDIUM

ProFTPD through 1.3.6b - Denial of Service via NULL Pointer Dereference in TLS CRL Verification

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/issues/861
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00039.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-35

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9
EPSS 0.0164
EPSS Percentile 73.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
proftpd/proftpd 1.3.6 (7 CPE variants)
proftpd/proftpd < 1.3.5e
Published Nov 30, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026