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Gentoo: 202304-07 Critical Risk Of Atftp Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The advisory issued by Gentoo concerning atftp points out a critical buffer overflow flaw and urges users to execute the needed updates.
A buffer overflow has been fixed in atftp.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-03
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atftp contains a buffer overflow.
More information is available at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105493701708152&w=2

SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-ftp/aftp upgrade to atftp-6.0-r2 as follows
emerge sync emerge atftp emerge clean
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PACKAGE : atftp
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-06-08 19:28 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =atftp-6.0-r2
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