Debian 3.1: DSA-1219-1 Critical Risk Proftpd Service Disruption
debian
November 21, 2006
It was discovered that the proftpd FTP daemon performs insufficient validation of FTP command buffer size limits, which may lead to denial of service
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Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.0-13 of the proftpd-dfsg package.
We recommend that you upgrade your proftpd package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 897 fe043ac01a1753ba7d47e169d7863039
Size/MD5 checksum: 127600 d1611a9db379bee3e1f137c4c09d4b13
Size/MD5 checksum: 920495 7d2bc5b4b1eef459a78e55c027a4f3c4
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 checksum: 422520 784f6a1ead480a7198dd0ad7df4c6d7d
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