After the recent vulnerability
discovery in several FTP daemons, Red Hat has packaged a
patched version of the default ftp server for Red Hat Linux.
Bill Nottingham, of Red Hat Software, writes:
Subject: SECURITY: new wu-ftpd packages available
A security vulnerability has been identified in all versions of the wu-ftpd
server binary shipped with Red Hat Linux. For more information, see
http://www.netect.com/advisory_0209.html
New packages are available for Red Hat Linux 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2. All
users of Red Hat Linux are encouraged to upgrade to the new wu-ftpd releases
immediately. As always, these packages have been signed with the Red Hat PGP
key.
Bill
Red Hat Linux 5.0,5.1,5.2:
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alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/alpha/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2.1.alpha.rpm
i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2.1.i386.rpm
sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/sparc/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2.1.sparc.rpm
Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18-2.1.src.rpm
Red Hat Linux 4.2:
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alpha:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/alpha/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b15-1.2.alpha.rpm
i386:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/i386/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b15-1.2.i386.rpm
sparc:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/sparc/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b15-1.2.sparc.rpm
Source rpm:
rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/4.2/SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.4.2b15-1.2.src.rpm