Debian: DSA 406-1 Critical: Lftp Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution

Package : lftp
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2003-0963

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lftp, a set of
sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs. An attacker
could create a carefully crafted directory on a website so that the
execution of an 'ls' or 'rels' command would lead to the execution of
arbitrary code on the client machine.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.9-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.6.10-1.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
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