Bug 67762 - Security problem: ftpaccess file overwriten when using up2date
Summary: Security problem: ftpaccess file overwriten when using up2date
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 57763
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: wu-ftpd
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: wdovlrrw
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-01 19:59 UTC by Graham Whiteside
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:43 UTC (History)
0 users

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:49:10 UTC
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Description Graham Whiteside 2002-07-01 19:59:23 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 
1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
The /etc/ftpaccess access file is overwriten when updating system using the 
up2date process. Any config for virtual ftp servers are removed giving 
external users access to other parts of your file system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.use up2date alow wu-ftp upgrade
2.check /etc/ftpaccess or access using ftp client
3.
	

Actual Results:  External ftp users had access to areas of my server not 
normally allowed.

Expected Results:  /etc/ftpaccess should remain untouched.

Additional info:

Security loophole.

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-12-18 17:24:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57763 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:49:10 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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