RHBA-2013:0071 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated lftp packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

Description

LFTP is a file transfer utility for FTP, SFTP, HTTP, and other commonly used
protocols. It uses the readline library for input, and provides support for
bookmarks, built-in monitoring, job control, and parallel transfer of multiple
files at the same time

This update fixes the following bug:

• Due to an incorrect evaluation of the length of an uploaded file, the lftp

tool became unresponsive after a file transfer in ASCII mode. With this update,
the volume of transferred data is recognized correctly and the lftp program no
longer hangs in this scenario. (BZ#810217)

All users of lftp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
this bug.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 810217 - lftp hangs using -a ascii mode

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)