Fedora 18 Update: ftp-0.17-63.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-17256
2012-10-30 20:06:11
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Name        : ftp
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 0.17
Release     : 63.fc18
URL         : ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/Networking/netkit
Summary     : The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client
Description :
The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command-line FTP (File
Transfer Protocol) client.  FTP is a widely used protocol for
transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files.

If your system is on a network, you should install ftp in order to do
file transfers.

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Update Information:

Fix buffer overflow in token parsing, Fix linelen patch
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #871296 - netkit ftp client buffer overflow when processing tokens in .netrc
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871296
  [ 2 ] Bug #871290 - netkit ftp client buffer overflow when processing macro
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=871290
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ftp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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