Headline
CVE-2005-0372: Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-686-1 gftp
Directory traversal vulnerability in gftp before 2.0.18 for GTK+ allows remote malicious FTP servers to read arbitrary files via … (dot dot) sequences in filenames returned from a LIST command.
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.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.11-1woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.18-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gftp package.