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Debian: DSA-017-1 Critical: OpenSSH Buffer Overflow Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2001
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Urgent update recommended for Debian's wu-ftpd due to critical security issues concerning temp files and format strings.
Security people at WireX have noticed a temp file creation bug and theWU-FTPD development team has found a possible format string bug inwu-ftpd.

Summary

Security people at WireX have noticed a temp file creation bug and the
WU-FTPD development team has found a possible format string bug in
wu-ftpd. Both could be remotely exploited, though no such exploit
exists currently.

We recommend you upgrade your wu-ftpd package immediately.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures.

Source archives:


MD5 checksum: 652cfe4b59e0468eded736e7c281d16f

MD5 checksum: a63f505372cbd5c3d2e0404f7f18576f

MD5 checksum: af6e196640d429f400810aaf016d144c

Intel ia32 architecture:


MD5 checksum: 5cdd2172e1b2459f1115cf034c91fe40

Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: 60192b7386401ddbbb4ada8776e887ec

Sun Sparc architecture:


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Package: wu-ftpd

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