DSA-457-1 wu-ftpd -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-457-1 wu-ftpd -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

08 Mar 2004

Affected Packages:

wu-ftpd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9832.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0148, CVE-2004-0185.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in wu-ftpd:

• CAN-2004-0148

  Glenn Stewart discovered that users could bypass the directory access restrictions imposed by the restricted-gid option by changing the permissions on their home directory. On a subsequent login, when access to the user's home directory was denied, wu-ftpd would fall back to the root directory.

• CAN-2004-0185

  A buffer overflow existed in wu-ftpd's code which deals with S/key authentication.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.2-3woody4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2.6.2-17.1.

We recommend that you update your wu-ftpd package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd-academ_2.6.2-3woody4_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wu-ftpd/wu-ftpd_2.6.2-3woody4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.