In Pure-FTPd before 1.0.50, an incorrect maxfilesize quota mechanism in the server allows attackers to upload files of unbounded size, which may lead to denial of service or a server hang. This occurs because a certain greater-than-zero test does not anticipate an initial -1 value. (Versions 1.0.23 through 1.0.49 are affected.)

An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An uninitialized pointer vulnerability has been detected in the diraliases linked list. When the lookupalias(const char alias) or printaliases(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 initaliases in diraliases.c.

An issue was discovered in Pure-FTPd 1.0.49. An out-of-bounds (OOB) read has been detected in the purestrcmp function in utils.c.

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related configuration. This issue doesn't affect upstream version of pure-ftpd.