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Bug 149109

Summary: CAN-2005-0372 directory traversal issue in gftp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: gftpAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.0CC: mclasen, timp, wtogami
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=moderate,public=20050214,source=vendorsec,reported=20050214
Fixed In Version: RHSA-2005-410 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-06-13 12:07:44 UTC Type: ---
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Patch taken from Debian to fix this issue.
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Demo exploit from the original bugtraq post none

Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-18 20:05:04 UTC 
gftp versions 2.0.18 and before have a directory traversal issue.  This issue
was reported to bugtraq in 2004, but it was not discovered in gftp until recently.

Please see:
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/385882/2004-12-01/2004-12-31/0
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-18 20:06:22 UTC 
Created attachment 111215 [details]
Patch taken from Debian to fix this issue.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-02-18 20:06:58 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1 and RHEL3.
Comment 3 Warren Togami 2005-02-19 04:30:48 UTC 
According to gftp's changelog, this issue is fixed in 2.0.18.  Is this incorrect?
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-02-24 14:06:53 UTC 
Warren,

I just checked the source, this is fixed in 2.0.18.
Comment 5 Josh Bressers 2005-03-31 15:31:12 UTC 
Ping on this issue
Comment 16 Josh Bressers 2005-06-02 17:19:31 UTC 
Created attachment 115099 [details]
Demo exploit from the original bugtraq post
Comment 17 Josh Bressers 2005-06-13 12:07:44 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-410.html