SuSE Security Announcement: wuftpd-2.6
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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: wuftpd < 2.6.0-121
Date: Tue Jun 27 17:57:51 MEST 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4
Vulnerability Type: remote root compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using this package
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.
Please note that we provide this information on an "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description
The wu-ftp FTP server does not do proper bounds checking while processing
the SITE EXEC command.
2. Impact
An remote attacker could execute arbitrary machine code as root on a FTP
server using wu-ftpd.
This bug could only be exploited if anonymous access to the FTP server
is allowed.
3. Solution
We recommend using our audited 2.4er version of wu-ftpd.
Update the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)
AXP:
634be5f377d4dfecb8f3456f3746860f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.alpha.rpm
6adbc81c16569aa53bd48994a290127a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.alpha.rpm
79e4b044ad8ef19497ce3a21c6f3a187 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.alpha.rpm
i386:
b9f3877a600c770f73ee0478e069af82 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-122.i386.rpm
453da7bf608d24ac87b19ef71c504fff ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.i386.rpm
1b8add24db4fb897ffdf8aea836f74c2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.i386.rpm
98720fa1385aa22f6ec53b4175a35be5 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-122.i386.rpm
PPC:
d54e0c3a877a5414eb7b274ef77b9bc6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/wuftpd-2.6.0-121.ppc.rpm
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You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/security
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
security@suse.de
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Thanks so much for the new kernel... unfortunately, when I installed it (using rpm -F k_deflt.rpm - also did rpm -F lx_suse.rpm for source) it screwed my system... initrd was not updated and it seems that there is enough different about the way the kernel was built, that it fails to load the module for the SCSI adapter on one of my systems, and on the one that is IDE based... it fails to load the network adapter and the usbcore module, and it complains about failures when it mount /dev/pts. Did I do something wrong? Or did I miss something? - Herman
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Herman Knief wrote:
Thanks so much for the new kernel... unfortunately, when I installed it (using rpm -F k_deflt.rpm - also did rpm -F lx_suse.rpm for source) it screwed my system... initrd was not updated and it seems that there is enough different about the way the kernel was built, that it fails to load the module for the SCSI adapter on one of my systems, and on the one that is IDE based... it fails to load the network adapter and the usbcore module, and it complains about failures when it mount /dev/pts.
I have similar problems. I installed k_laptop.rpm (rpm -Uhv k_laptop.rpm) and get the following boot messages: | Loading module usbcore ... | insmod: usbcore: no module by that name found | ... | modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module usbdevfs | mount: fs type usbdevfs not supported by kernel | devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) failed Guess there are some modules missing...
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Mark Lutz wrote:
I have similar problems. I installed k_laptop.rpm (rpm -Uhv k_laptop.rpm) and get the following boot messages:
| Loading module usbcore ... | insmod: usbcore: no module by that name found | ... | modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module usbdevfs | mount: fs type usbdevfs not supported by kernel | devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) failed
Guess there are some modules missing...
No, but some device entries in /dev have changed. Please also update package "devs", which is also available on the ftp server. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany You always swat where he's not, or if he is aha! a spot.
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