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Red Hat Linux: RHSA-2000:039-02 Critical: Wu-Ftpd Remote Access Exploit

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Patch available for Red Hat wu-ftpd buffer overflow exploit. Upgrade to prevent unauthorized access.
Buffer overflow in wu-ftpd 2.6.0 and below fixed

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

N/A

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 5.2:

i386:

alpha:

sparc:

sources:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

i386:

alpha:

sparc:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name e1f3b09d8ad0067fa7fd22e7afe77e64 5.2/SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2.5.x.src.rpm 7c2f89b3f8533ec54a36c5dde5995ce6 5.2/alpha/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2.5.x.alpha.rpm 8dbd0b0f1fa1d0755393942cb4cb141d 5.2/i386/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2.5.x.i386.rpm 5d9df2512a15e5c8914f398d980b12e7 5.2/sparc/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-2.5.x.sparc.rpm 67349a75b767585628912b840e52806e 6.2/SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.src.rpm fafe870fc91762dd7e9182df3b4dfee5 6.2/alpha/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.alpha.rpm 50c11f333641277ab75e6207bffb13b4 6.2/i386/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.i386.rpm 8abba6ffa660d1c221581855630ed40d 6.2/sparc/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-14.6x.sparc.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux update buffer overrun remote access wu-ftpd root exploit

References

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Package List


Severity
critical
Lowest
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:039-02
Issue date: 2000-06-23
Updated on: 2000-06-23
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: wu-ftpd, root exploit, site exec, buffer overrun
Cross references: N/A

Topic

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Linux update buffer overrun remote access wu-ftpd root exploit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386 alpha sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386 alpha sparc

Bugs Fixed

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