Debian DSA 338-1 Critical: ProFTPD SQL Injection Remote Attack

runlevel [runlevel@raregazz.org] reported that ProFTPD's PostgreSQL
authentication module is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack. This
vulnerability could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker
to execute arbitrary SQL statements, potentially exposing the
passwords of other users, or to connect to ProFTPD as an arbitrary
user without supplying the correct password.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.4+1.2.5rc1-5woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.8-8.

We recommend that you update your proftpd 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 resou...