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Subject: Re: Wu-ftpd FTP server contains remotely exploitable off-by-one bug
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 jjf@mind.net wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I see in BugTraq that there's yet another problem with Wu-ftpd, but I see
> no mention of it in the freebsd-security mailing list archives...I have
> searched the indexes from all of June and July.
> 
> Wu is pretty widely used, so I'm surprised that nobody seems to have 
> mentioned this problem in this forum.
> 
> The notice on BugTraq mentioned only Linux, not FreeBSD, but that's no
> reason to assume that FreeBSD machines aren't vulnerable, too.  Which is
> why I am confused as to the lack of discussion of this matter.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> John
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Buffer overflows which work on Linux do not work on FreeBSD.