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gftp -- directory traversal vulnerability

Affected packages
		gftp	<	2.0.18

Details

VuXML ID	2d8cf857-81ea-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82
Discovery	2005-02-04
Entry	2005-02-18

A Debian Security Advisory reports:

Albert Puigsech Galicia discovered a directory traversal vulnerability in a proprietary FTP client (CAN-2004-1376) which is also present in gftp, a GTK+ FTP client. A malicious server could provide a specially crafted filename that could cause arbitrary files to be overwritten or created by the client.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	12539
CVE Name	CVE-2005-0372
URL	http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-686
URL	http://www.gftp.org/changelog.html