[SECURITY] [DSA 2523-1] globus-gridftp-server security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2523-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
August 06, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : globus-gridftp-server
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2012-3292

It was discovered that the GridFTP component from the Globus Toolkit, a
toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications performed
insufficient validation of a name lookup, which could lead to privilege
escalation.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.23-1+squeeze1 of the globus-gridftp-server source package
and in version 0.43-1+squeeze1 of the globus-gridftp-server-control
source package

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid),
this problem has been fixed in version 6.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your globus-gridftp-server packages.

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