Re: ftp conversions exploit

[lex () TWILIGHT TELCO MD (Alexey Chetroi)]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, David Malone wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 04:47:25AM +0000, Desi Hacker wrote:
>
> > during the exploiting process.. the final step as instructed by the auther
> > doesn't work
> >
> > ftp> get "--use-compress-program=sh blah".tar
> > or
> > ftp> get "--use-compress-program=sh blah".tar
> >
> > instead is gives a warning of permission denied!
> > in case of anon ftp logging
>
> The ftpaccess man page contains the following example line:
>
>       path-filter anonymous /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9._]*$ ^\. ^-
>
> which disallows filenames starting with . or - to anonymous users.
> Maybe your ftpaccess line contains this?

it doesn't disallow filenames starting with . or -, it disallows filenames
with spaces

>       David.