Debian Security Advisory

DSA-551-1 lukemftpd -- incorrect internal variable handling

Date Reported:

21 Sep 2004

Affected Packages:

lukemftpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0794.

More information:

Przemyslaw Frasunek discovered a vulnerability in tnftpd or lukemftpd respectively, the enhanced ftp daemon from NetBSD. An attacker could utilise this to execute arbitrary code on the server.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1-1woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1-2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your lukemftpd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.