Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:14:07 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of proftpd fixes remote exploits

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
November 11, 1999
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The proftpd version that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
had several buffer overruns that could be exploited by remote
attackers. A short list of problems:
* user input was used in snprintf() without sufficient checks
* there was an overflow in the log_xfer() routine
* you could overflow a buffer by using very long pathnames

Please not that this is not meant to be an exhaustive list.

In addition to the security fixes a couple of Y2K problems were also
fixed.

We have made a new package with version 1.2.0pre9-4 to address these
issues, and we recommend to upgrade your proftpd package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: d703d0e3aea53b480756010189ce38ae
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 074aee046bd22429d98d4928bcb8e14e
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/proftpd_1.2.0pre9.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 3f41477cc398ddd9f8afbf475f8be1a5

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1d614aaf48960f233d14b8cd3e206cc3

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 26482b8817defe8eef78ff0b3f892a1d

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0b6c057d5c5895adfac4803b5165306b

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/proftpd_1.2.0pre9-4_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: b13deca3169a6516025cd9ace9beea05


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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