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Subject: Re: CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - WU-FTPD (re-release)
From: Przemyslaw Frasunek (venglinFREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 02:09:16 CDT


> This is a new release. Our previous -10cl didn't fix the problem.
> wu-ftpd package version 2.6.0 and below has a buffer overflow that can
> be remotely exploited and give an attacker root privileges on the
> remote machine.

This advisory is clueless. This is *NOT* a buffer overflow attack. Exploit uses
vsnprintf() format string to overwrite *arbitrary* chunk of stack or bss.

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