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Re: Remote hole in ftpd that can lead to root compromise




ftpd is not enabled in the default install since 2.6.

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Cam

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Kristian Vlaardingerbroek wrote:
> Well I'm sorry to report you that your 3 years of remote safeness have
> just ended. Due to a off-by-one bug in the void replydirname(name,
> message), it is possible to gain remote root on an OpenBSD machine (and
> any other OS capable of running the BSD ftpd daemon).