Debian Security Advisory

DSA-510-1 jftpgw -- format string

Date Reported:
29 May 2004
Affected Packages:
jftpgw
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10438.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0448.
More information:

jaguar@felinemenace.org discovered a vulnerability in jftpgw, an FTP proxy program, whereby a remote user could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the jftpgw server process. By default, the server runs as user "nobody".

CAN-2004-0448: format string vulnerability via syslog(3) in log() function

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.13.1-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.13.4-1.

We recommend that you update your jftpgw package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/j/jftpgw/jftpgw_0.13.1-1woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.