Solution: Slackware has fixed the vulnerability in the ncftp 3.1.5 packages and later.
Changelog: 2005-05-17: Vendor reports that they made a mistake when issuing the Slackware advisory and that the vulnerability has already been fixed in ncftp 3.1.5.
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