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Red Hat 6.1: RHSA-1999:043-01 Critical: wu-ftpd Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey December 7, 1999
Dist Redhat Esm H88
This advisory details vulnerabilities in WU-FTPD for Red Hat Linux systems, emphasizing risks like severe remote exploits and critical buffer overflow flaws
Various computer security groups have reported security problems in the WU-FTPD daemon, the FTP server shipped with all versions of Red Hat Linux

Solution



For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:


rpm -Uvh filename


where filename is the name of the RPM.

9. Verification:


 MD5 sum                           Package Name

dcd5d04df11849007aa3c4fb398cfbfb  i386/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1.i386.rpm
a0b3a1a0dcfbdfd1443d0aecd960e907  alpha/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1.alpha.rpm
7511f1f96b3044207cbe11d34f75ff7a  sparc/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1.sparc.rpm
7e30ea42e82908752b943621580f6f1c  SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.0-1.src.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 filename


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 filename







Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow remote exploit wu-ftpd

References


Package List


Severity
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Topic

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow remote exploit wu-ftpd

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.1, for i386, alpha and sparc

5. Obsoleted by:

None

6. Conflicts with:

None

7. RPMs required:

Intel:

wu-ftpd-

2.6.0-1.i386.rpm

Alpha:

wu-ftpd-

2.6.0-1.alpha.rpm

SPARC:

wu-ftpd-

2.6.0-1.sparc.rpm

Source:

wu-ftpd-

2.6.0-1.src.rpm

Architecture neutral:

Bugs Fixed

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