DSA 551-1: New lukemftpd packages fix arbitrary code execution

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 09/21/2004 10:57 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

New lukemftpd packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 551-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
September 21st, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : lukemftpd
Vulnerability : incorrect internal variable handling
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0794

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.

Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 607 06103d9e3c0203ac9683b6d85b0648e8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 21428 31c9f38076478a9efca1fb6af1e4da91
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 162161 66286f1cc17988964c6e224e196c7b94

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 87198 8a02a98d0a2896249462e30aa990c823

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 75226 b61e81a3e2ec0a523bd2022766b63597

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 70458 a2c736d42b10f7c711f8275b0ab4aa81

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 103980 eab48b110d0d2890f0c0e69bbe774a13

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 81882 12578b2f1d100a2feda3183548c257ac

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 67132 219fb21073fd97ed01e9726258a9817f

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79572 6b0f8dcb732f6fde37ca532ac085ad67

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79464 714e022877fa3c8349956f89a84b721f

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 75426 0556b5925eb57b3d40cbff7352e3fc0d

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 75448 7d43eff77fb5a4ac0c71b50864438465

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lukemftpd/lukemftpd_1.1-1woody2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 77976 67ec7f91ad6e30ac60f1e54b51cb476b

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