Security Advisory SA22853 - Gentoo update for ftpd

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Secunia Advisory SA22853

Gentoo update for ftpd

Secunia Advisory

SA22853

Release Date

2006-11-13

Last Update

2007-02-14

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Gentoo Linux

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-5778 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers
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Description

Gentoo has issued an update for ftpd. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information or perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

For more information:
SA22816

Solution
Update to "net-ftp/ftpd-0.17-r5" or later.
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Original Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200611-05.xml

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