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Debian 3.1 DSA 1006-1 Critical: wzdftpd Remote Command Execution

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2006
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Debian DSA 1007-1 addresses vulnerabilities in wzdftpd to mitigate risks associated with unauthorized command execution.
Updated package.
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Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.2-1.1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.5.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your wzdftpd package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 770 9b5198715396dc3241b38522866236eb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18064 56f5a27176316cbe9f6e33f271fa2137
Size/MD5 checksum: 818860 62a4af39801fe581f85cd063c5fc4717

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 checksum: 3099...

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