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Re: serious security bug in wu-ftpd v2.4


From: rene () via nl (Rene Janssen)
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 20:56:30 +0100


At 12:30 4-01-97 -0600, you wrote:
In many instances, the ftpd server gets the SIGPIPE due to the closed data
connection and begins the dologout() procedure.

The data connection is already closed due to the SIGPIPE right ? No wait..
there are two socket connections if one doesnt use passive mode ? Only
allowing passive mode filetransfer could also be a temporary solution to
fix this problem. Correct me if I am wrong.


_Rene.



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