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: ================== 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: ================== 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