Users of LFTP please be advised of a vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-984-1: [USN-984-1] LFTP vulnerability
Details follow:
It was discovered that LFTP incorrectly filtered filenames suggested
by Content-Disposition headers. If a user or automated system were tricked
into downloading a file from a malicious site, a remote attacker could
create the file with an arbitrary name, such as a dotfile, and possibly run
arbitrary code.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/9Bxfg1
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