Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2523-1 globus-gridftp-server -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 06 Aug 2012
- Affected Packages:
- globus-gridftp-server
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-3292.
- More information:
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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.