Synopsis

lftp bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated lftp package that fixes various bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

LFTP is a sophisticated file transfer program for the FTP and HTTP protocols.
Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has
bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files in parallel. It is
designed with reliability in mind.

This updated lftp package includes fixes for the following bugs:

• The GnuTLS library does not support some previously offered TLS ciphers. As a
  consequence, some users experienced the error message, "Fatal error:
  gnutls_handshake: A TLS fatal alert has been received", when attempting to use
  SSL. With this update, it is now possible to force an SSLv3 connection instead
  of TLS using the "set ftp:ssl-auth SSL" configuration directive for servers
  without support for any of the TLS ciphers listed. This works both for implicit
  and explicit FTPS. (BZ#532099)
  
• Prior to this update, the lftp client was not able to support "CLEAR COMMAND
  CHANNEL" (CCC) mode (RFC4217). Without CCC, Layer 7 aware firewalls cannot see
  the PASV port statements necessary to open the requisite data ports for
  transfers. This updated package fixes the described weakness and the lftp client
  supports CCC mode as intended. As a result data transfers through Layer 7 aware
  firewalls no longer fail in the scenario described. (BZ#570495)
  
• Prior to this update, when the lftp client was started with the "-e" option
  and the mget command was used, the returned exit status code was zero,
  (success), when creating a connection to a URL had failed due to the specified
  URL being non-existent. This update applies a patch that improves the error
  handling in mget. As a result, the lftp client now returns exit status code '1',
  indicating a failure, when creating a connection fails in the scenario
  described. (BZ#727435)
  

All users of lftp are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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 Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 532099 - lftp doesn't work with ssl since RHEL 5.4

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
x86_64
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d06a1c9765ae466f2f8a7059892e5aed1b0f4a8f9575f86f961c0c102d4ef2e7
ia64
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: c5e45d240738b0ef52809cfba01b808b361a45474f76e52748abeb2a10c25166
i386
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 187d7a43cf5011767b328c5942d0059a67cd636acfbb850c570ee2fcd5257d18

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
x86_64
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d06a1c9765ae466f2f8a7059892e5aed1b0f4a8f9575f86f961c0c102d4ef2e7
i386
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 187d7a43cf5011767b328c5942d0059a67cd636acfbb850c570ee2fcd5257d18

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
x86_64
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d06a1c9765ae466f2f8a7059892e5aed1b0f4a8f9575f86f961c0c102d4ef2e7
i386
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 187d7a43cf5011767b328c5942d0059a67cd636acfbb850c570ee2fcd5257d18

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
s390x
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 848dc31c86715b01be9df9f6e3826fce511222a68168c48cd85cc02c3f4dd93f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
ppc
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 0180db5d99746cf6d3d6d1c92c312ad896f700567fe8c20a7a5dc41de2542013

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 506b7fe0e04ed8df0168646d4ec5c43636a8e30c958e05bdb1c8e25ddfcfc731
x86_64
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d06a1c9765ae466f2f8a7059892e5aed1b0f4a8f9575f86f961c0c102d4ef2e7
i386
lftp-3.7.11-7.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 187d7a43cf5011767b328c5942d0059a67cd636acfbb850c570ee2fcd5257d18