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Secunia Advisory SA9828

Slackware update for WU-FTPD
Secunia Advisory SA9828
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Release Date 2003-09-24
   
Popularity 7,416 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Slackware Linux 9.0
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-1999-0997 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Slackware has issued updated packages for wu-ftpd. These fix an old vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when FTP conversion is enabled. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands via a specially crafted file name, which is interpreted as command line arguments to the conversion program (eg. tar).

Successful exploitation requires that the malicious person has been authenticated by the FTP server.


Solution
Apply updated packages.
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.slackware.com/lists/archive/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2003&m=slackware-security.365971

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