January 5th 2000, a serious security problem with War FTP Daemon 1.70 was reported by email. Two hours after I read the mail, a security alert was sent to the war-ftpd mailing list, the alt.comp.jgaa newsgroup and the bugtraq mailing list. The alert advised all server operators to take the server off-line until further notice. Brief overview: *War FTP Daemon 1.70: The bug allows unrestricted access to any file on the local machine also for users that have not logged on. If an older ODBC driver is installed, the bug also gives users unlimited access to all system commands, with administrator privileges (this is a bug in ODBC that has been fixed in recent versions). The advice is to take all version 1.70 servers off-line until the server is upgraded! A bugfix (War FTP Daemon 1.71) was released january 8th 2000 14:40 CET. *War FTP Daemon 1.67b2 and previous versions: The bug may give privileged uses unrestricted access to some files. Users must be logged in, and have at least write or create permissions. Users can not execute commands. A bugfix was released less than 24 hours from I read the mail that reported the problem. Bugfixes are released at: ftp://ftp.no.jgaa.com\ The latest information about this problem can be found at: http://war.jgaa.com/alert/ Jarle Aase
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