Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.64806
Category:	Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:	RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1278
Summary:	The remote host is missing updates announced in;advisory RHSA-2009:1278.;;LFTP is a sophisticated file transfer program for the FTP and HTTP;protocols. Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for;input. It has bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files;in parallel. It is designed with reliability in mind.;;It was discovered that lftp did not properly escape shell metacharacters;when generating shell scripts using the mirror --script command. A;mirroring script generated to download files from a malicious FTP server;could allow an attacker controlling the FTP server to run an arbitrary;command as the user running lftp. (CVE-2007-2348);;Note: This update upgrades LFTP from version 3.7.3 to upstream version;3.7.11, which incorporates a number of further bug fixes to those noted;above. For details regarding these fixes, refer to the;/usr/share/doc/lftp-3.7.11/NEWS file after installing this update.;(BZ#308721);;All LFTP users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which;resolves these issues.
Description:	Summary: The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory RHSA-2009:1278. LFTP is a sophisticated file transfer program for the FTP and HTTP protocols. Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files in parallel. It is designed with reliability in mind. It was discovered that lftp did not properly escape shell metacharacters when generating shell scripts using the mirror --script command. A mirroring script generated to download files from a malicious FTP server could allow an attacker controlling the FTP server to run an arbitrary command as the user running lftp. (CVE-2007-2348) Note: This update upgrades LFTP from version 3.7.3 to upstream version 3.7.11, which incorporates a number of further bug fixes to those noted above. For details regarding these fixes, refer to the /usr/share/doc/lftp-3.7.11/NEWS file after installing this update. (BZ#308721) All LFTP users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues. Solution: Please note that this update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date CVSS Score: 6.8 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-2348 23736 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23736 25107 http://secunia.com/advisories/25107 25132 http://secunia.com/advisories/25132 36559 http://secunia.com/advisories/36559 ADV-2007-1590 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1590 RHSA-2009:1278 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1278.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173524 http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1229 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10806 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10806
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