Re: FTP servers and security help
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of software, it
> might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on bugtraq is due
> to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd
> recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I imagine the
> debian maintainer will have a patch out soon, if not already -- if you don't
> want to deal with compiling your own server.
- From the changelog </usr/share/doc/proftpd/changelog.Debian.gz>
proftpd (1.2.0pre4-1) unstable; urgency=high
* New upstream version, fixing remote root exploit.
i _think_ this means the patch has already been applied and uploaded.
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