RHBA-2009:1664 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated vsftpd package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The vsftpd package includes a Very Secure FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
daemon.

This updated vsftpd package fixes the following bug:

• certain vsftpd commands such as "ls" accept wildcard (globbing)

characters, which allows matching multiple files with a single command.
However, these commands did not "expand" any wildcard characters beyond the
first one in any given string, which could have caused a failure to match
certain files. With this update, vsftpd's commands which accept wildcards
now expand all such characters fully, thus enabling them to match file
names as expected. (BZ#544278)

All users of vsftpd are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.4 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 544278 - [RHEL 5] Wildcard failures with vsftpd

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)