Gentoo: GLSA-202301-14 Critical: curl Unsafe Protocol Handling
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December 18, 2003
Two buffer overflow problems have been found in lftp, a multithreaded command-line based FTP client
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200312-07 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLSA: 200312-07 Package: net-ftp/lftp Summary: Two buffer overflow problems found in lftp Severity: minimal Gentoo bug: 35866 Date: 2003-12-16 CVE: CAN-2003-0963 Exploit: remote Affected: <=2.6.9 Fixed: >=2.6.10
DESCRIPTION:
Two buffer overflow problems have been found in lftp, a multithreaded command-line based FTP client. A specially created directory on a web server could be used to execute arbitrary code on the connecting machine. The user's machine has to connect to a malicious web server using HTTP or HTTPS, then issue an "ls" or "rels" command.
Please see <> for more details on this problem.
SOLUTION:
All machines which have net-ftp/lftp installed should be updated to use version 2.6.10 or higher using these commands:
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