That was fast, thanks for the response !!!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Brad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 9:49 PM > To: Seth R Arnold > Cc: Debian-User > Subject: Re: FTP servers and security help > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Paul, stay away from wu_ftpd. It might be a wonderful piece of > software, it > > might do many things -- but it seems half the unix traffic on > bugtraq is due > > to buffer overflows in wu_ftpd. A security hole was found in proftpd > > recently, but the patch (on bugtraq) is a one-line fix -- so I > imagine the > > debian maintainer will have a patch out soon, if not already -- > if you don't > > want to deal with compiling your own server. > > - From the changelog </usr/share/doc/proftpd/changelog.Debian.gz> > proftpd (1.2.0pre4-1) unstable; urgency=high > > * New upstream version, fixing remote root exploit. > > i _think_ this means the patch has already been applied and uploaded. > > > - -- > finger for PGP public key. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.3ia > Charset: noconv > > iQCVAwUBN9Mdhr7M/9WKZLW5AQFzuwP/Zmkj5Oi8s9+0R+PQkR5wgeEoY4aGxOHV > jiawNuiNpp3Xmt7uKNK6Ix7qJiWjTEvuxBQYRSRMfrd6I2K2lhYrEgHYxsvOmdvL > zl6OVbUrOSmYKLSU6ima5HljcWq/4u7X1hUE6DRrzwvLv42UDwoWOP4Nd8Q1Quj4 > vlfRGw9qec8= > =UKaS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
