[vox-tech] proftpd

Rick Moen vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 19 Nov 2002 04:05:46 -0800


Forgot to mention:

Quoting Brian Lavender (brian@brie.com):

> I use wu-ftp.

Better you than me.  The codebase is riddled with buffer overflows still
waiting to happen.  I wouldn't touch it _or_ proftpd on a bet.

> Your system could still be vulnerable even with ssh. dsniff, ssl
> exploits...

Your system could be vulnerable even if you eliminate all remote
exploits and basically do everything right:

http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/breakin-without-remote-vulnerability

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