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Debian Security Advisory DSA 084-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Martin Schulze
October 18th, 2001
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Package        : gftp
Vulnerability  : Information Retrieval
Problem-Type   : local unauthorized Information Retrieval
Debian-specific: no

Stephane Gaudreault told us that version 2.0.6a of gftp displays the
password in plain text on the screen within the log window when it is
logging into an ftp server.  A malicious collegue who is watching the
screen could gain access to the users shell on the remote machine.

This problem has been fixed by the Security Team in version 2.0.6a-3.2
for the stable Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gftp package.

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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

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


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

      
      MD5 checksum: 8eba39ab947712b46756b4e014b72e8c
      
      MD5 checksum: 5b0f8f6b09910a413981fc61fb6cf484
      
      MD5 checksum: 127b1caeacaf342a6f43cfc995b080d6

  Alpha architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 8df836bc91543dc8387a88e4dd8bbdff

  ARM architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 443740e7141814de14687e8209202275

  Intel ia32 architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 674adafc20770c71c53a8b44a4959a25

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 301a2a4597e2d8b01e6ee2b273647632

  PowerPC architecture:

     
 
      MD5 checksum: d1a65f1efe034f9462bb7bff35d58d58

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      MD5 checksum: 630a9b18ff29b6a21778dd9dff9a7b9d


  These files will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

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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/