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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1997: Re: serious security bug in wu-ftpd v2.4

Re: serious security bug in wu-ftpd v2.4

Rene Janssen (renevia.nl)
Sat, 4 Jan 1997 20:56:30 +0100

At 12:30 4-01-97 -0600, you wrote:
>In many instances, the ftpd server gets the SIGPIPE due to the closed data
>connection and begins the dologout() procedure.

The data connection is already closed due to the SIGPIPE right ? No wait..
there are two socket connections if one doesnt use passive mode ? Only
allowing passive mode filetransfer could also be a temporary solution to
fix this problem. Correct me if I am wrong.


_Rene.