Debian: DSA 282-1 Critical: moxftp Buffer Overflow Risk

Knud Erik Højgaard discovered a vulnerability in moxftp (and xftp
respectively), an Athena X interface to FTP. Insufficient bounds
checking could lead to execution of arbitrary code, provided by a
malicious FTP server. Erik Tews fixed this.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2-18.1.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 2.2-13.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed
in version 2.2-18.20.

We recommend that you upgrade your xftp package.


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
footer to the proper configuration.


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