Subject: Re: wu-ftpd has a security hole
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/30/2001 01:06:43
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hi,

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:28:27PM -0500, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> There's been a fair amount of discussion on bugtraq about a security=20
> hole in wu-ftpd.  It's not part of NetBSD, but it is in the package=20
> collection and it's pretty popular...

the interesting point is that this bug is quite old.. see:

 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/82/180823

 To: Vuln-Dev
 Subject: some ftpd implementations mishandle CWD ~{
 Date: Apr 30 2001 9:00PM
 Author: Matt Power <mhpower@bos.bindview.com>

anyway, i wonder who can still use wu-ftpd after all those remote exploitab=
le
root bugs they had introduced.

regards,

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