# CVE-2020-9274: An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Nuclei template
- Published: 2020-02-26 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/jedisct1/pure-ftpd/commit/8d0d42542e2cb7a56d645fbe4d0ef436e38bcefa
- https://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd/news/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00029.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-54
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/22P44PECZWNDP7CMBL7NRBMNFS73C5Z2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U5DBVHJCXWRSJPNJQCJQCKZF6ZDPZCKA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B5NSUDWXZVWUCL6R2PTX3KBB42Z62CA5/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4515-1/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/network/cves/2020/CVE-2020-9274.yaml

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