Immunix Information for VU#886083

        Immunix OS Security Advisory

Packages updated:       wu-ftpd
Affected products:      Immunix 7.0
Bugs fixed:             immunix/1861
Date:                   Wed Nov 28 2001
Advisory ID:            IMNX-2001-70-036-01
Author:                 Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
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Description:
  CORE Security Technologies has found an heap overflow problem in
  wu-ftpd, related to the internal globbing functions. Because this is a
  heap overflow, StackGuard does not prevent any possible exploits from
  working.

  Thomas Biege from SuSE has also discovered several format-string
  problems that may or may not be remotely exploitable; these problems
  were also found independently by someone else, who sadly is unknown to
  WireX.

  The wu-ftpd packages provided here fix these problems, as well as
  other lesser problems.

  References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/242750

Package names and locations:
  Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7.0 are available at:
  http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6_imnx_4.i386.rpm

  Source package for Immunix 7.0 is available at:
  http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6_imnx_4.src.rpm

Immunix OS 7.0 md5sums:
  c6c2fa2fa60f2cfe5b496ad0281fa486  RPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6_imnx_4.i386.rpm
  e8a2e0a1f8abe59ad058b6fecc8a1c72  SRPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6_imnx_4.src.rpm

GPG verification:                                                              
  Our public key is available at <http://wirex.com/security/GPG_KEY>.          
  *** NOTE *** This key is different from the one used in advisories            
  IMNX-2001-70-020-01 and earlier.

Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories:
  http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and advisories:
  http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/

Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories:
  http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/

NOTE:
  Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above are
  slow, please try:
    ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/
  or one of the many mirrors available at:
    http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html

  ImmunixOS 6.2 is no longer officially supported.

Contact information:
  To report vulnerabilities, please contact security@wirex.com. WireX
  attempts to conform to the RFP vulnerability disclosure protocol
  <http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html>.

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