Debian Security Advisory
DSA-406-1 lftp -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jan 2004
- Affected Packages:
- lftp
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9210.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0963. - More information:
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Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in lftp, a set of sophisticated command-line FTP/HTTP client programs. An attacker could create a carefully crafted directory on a website so that the execution of an 'ls' or 'rels' command would lead to the execution of arbitrary code on the client machine.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.4.9-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.10-1.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/lftp/lftp_2.4.9-1woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.