Debian 2.2 DSA-055-1 Critical: gftp printf Attack Mitigation

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
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: 23df5107a21eaa36b3dcc50367bd3b46

MD5 checksum: b99704d17c10b1f2bbbb80d430b55d21

MD5 checksum: 8eba39ab947712b46756b4e014b72e8c

Alpha architecture:

MD5 checksum: 7df9efccb67296eb2df1e070e66add80

ARM architecture:

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