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Debian Security Advisory DSA-029-2                       security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                                Martin Schulze
March 6, 2001
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Package        : proftpd
Vulnerability  : remote DOS & potential buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

In Debian Security Advisory DSA 029-1 we have reported several
vulnerabilities in proftpd that have been fixed.  For details please
read the main advisory.  This upload fixes:

 1. A memory leak which can result in a denial of service, as reported
    by Wojciech Purczynski.  The default configuration of proftpd
    in Debian is not vulnerable.

 2. A similar memory leak affects the USER command, also as reported
    by Wojciech Purczynski.

 3. Format string vulnerabilities reported by Przemyslaw Frasunek.

The most recent advisory covering proftpd missed one architecture that
was released with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.  Therefore this advisory is
only an addition to DSA 029-1 and only adds the relevant package for
the Motorola 680x0 architecture.

We recommend you upgrade your sudo packages for m68k 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.


  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 96315bb133a487e81944e6cef2358d09


  These files will be moved into
     soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory    .

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Debian: 'proftpd' vulnerabilities

March 5, 2001
In Debian Security Advisory DSA 029-1 we have reported several vulnerabilities in proftpd that have been fixed

Summary

In Debian Security Advisory DSA 029-1 we have reported several
vulnerabilities in proftpd that have been fixed. For details please
read the main advisory. This upload fixes:

1. A memory leak which can result in a denial of service, as reported
by Wojciech Purczynski. The default configuration of proftpd
in Debian is not vulnerable.

2. A similar memory leak affects the USER command, also as reported
by Wojciech Purczynski.

3. Format string vulnerabilities reported by Przemyslaw Frasunek.

The most recent advisory covering proftpd missed one architecture that
was released with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. Therefore this advisory is
only an addition to DSA 029-1 and only adds the relevant package for
the Motorola 680x0 architecture.

We recommend you upgrade your sudo packages for m68k 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.


Motorola 680x0 architecture:


MD5 checksum: 96315bb133a487e81944e6cef2358d09


These files will be moved into
soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory .

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For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/




Severity
Package : proftpd
Vulnerability : remote DOS & potential buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

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