[techtalk] [Fwd: SECURITY: [RHSA-1999:043] New wu-ftpd packages available] (fwd)

[Laurel Fan]

Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Oct-99 [techtalk] [Fwd: SECURITY: .. by Lyta
Alexander at sk.sympat 
> If you are running wu-ftp from a RedHat 6.1 install, there is a major
> security hole!  See below for details...

All ftpds suck.  The only one that doesn't have more holes than a
fishing net is the openbsd ftpd (it's debians default ftpd. don't know
where to get it for other distros..). 

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