Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:14:07 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
November 11, 1999
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
This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, 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 680×0 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/
.
– —
For apt-get: deb
http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp:
ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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