------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-055-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman May 8, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : gftp Problem type : printf format attack Debian-specific: no The gftp package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a problem in its logging code: it logged data received from the network but it did not protect itself from printf format attacks. An attacker can use this by making a FTP server return special responses that exploit this. This has been fixed in version 2.0.6a-3.1, and we recommend that you upgrade your gftp package. wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato --------------------------------- Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1.diff.gz MD5 checksum: 23df5107a21eaa36b3dcc50367bd3b46 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1.dsc MD5 checksum: b99704d17c10b1f2bbbb80d430b55d21 http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/gftp_2.0.6a.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 8eba39ab947712b46756b4e014b72e8c Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 7df9efccb67296eb2df1e070e66add80 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 2d701b8c6c4f5e05ca8664a65cf2e8d3 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 71b547eec5c5e24f9dca56882b5fbf8a Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: 4f824249dd40ed70ba3f373cbad1a790 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 12d5e7b0b433d9eeefef48c31786ee83 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/gftp_2.0.6a-3.1_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: c0de4c7a87d2dbb153bc6a67530ac0cc These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ . -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Debian: 'gftp' vulnerability
The gftp package as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 has a problem in its logging code.
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