wu-ftpd exploit and RH 6.2

[David Thornton]

here hear!

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From: "Michael" <mjc106-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: wu-ftpd exploit and RH 6.2


> > You may want to patch those 6.2 FTP servers regarding this one:
> > 
> > http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-245.html
> > 
> > Patch is easily applied to the current 6.2 SRPMS.
> 
> At the risk of sounding like an ad for ProFTP, don't use wu-ftp, if
> you really need to run an FTP server, use something else - wu-ftp is
> old and has a lot of security issues. (Anyone who does not support
> anonymous ftp may want to consider shutting down FTPd and only allow
> scp... there are freeware windows scp clients available.)
> 
> Michael
> 
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