RHSA-2001:053: gftp format string vulnerability corrected
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(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
06/27/2001
07/25/2018
10/28/2005
07/04/2017
Description
An updated gftp package is available for Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.1. This package contains an upgrade to gftp version 2.0.8, which improves functionality and fixes a format string vulnerability.
Previous gftp versions had a problem with format strings allowing malicious ftp servers to potentially execute code on the gftp user's system.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-gftp
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