Bad idea, right?<BR><BR>Trouble is, I know that's a REALLY bad idea, but I am not sure how to explain this to someone who is not understanding what I am saying. One of our servers is being routinely ...

The apprehension about WU-FTPD is getting hard to ignore. This popular FTP server is included by default in all Linux distributions; it’s optional with FreeBSD and is the default FTP server in HP-UX, ...

Topic ===== remote root exploit in wu-ftpd (ftp daemon for most Linux distributions) Problem Description ===== There is a bug in the wu-ftpd code that can be exploited remotely. Obviously immediate ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD), which is ...

My question is at the end of this post, you can skip the backgrounder if you want.<BR><BR>....<BR><backgrounder, you can skip this><BR>I'm rather inexperienced in setting up an FTP-server. Originally, ...

A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw ...

A bug in popular software used to transfer files between computers over the Internet could leave a door open to online vandals and network intruders, data protection specialist PGP Security said on ...

A security warning has been issued by the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University advising users of the Washington University FTP daemon (WU-FTPD) for Unix and Linux systems that their ...

This is what you do when your Wu-ftp connection is refused. Q: I recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on a machine that I want to use as an FTP server for some files the IT department regularly need ...

A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw ...

Topic ===== remote root exploit in wu-ftpd Problem Description ===== The wu-ftpd package contains the Washington University FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server daemon. FTP is a method of transferring ...