[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: tnftp-20141031-1.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-14113
2014-11-01 15:23:10
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Name        : tnftp
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 20141031
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.NetBSD.org/
Summary     : FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client from NetBSD
Description :
tnftp is the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client from NetBSD.  FTP is a widely
used protocol for transferring files over the Internet and for archiving files.
tnftp provides some advanced features beyond the Linux netkit ftp client, but
maintains a similar user interface to the traditional ftp client.  It was
formerly called lukemftp.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2014-8517
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Oct 31 2014 David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com> - 20141031-1
- Upgrade to tnftp-20141031 to fix CVE-2014-8517 (#1158287)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1158286 - CVE-2014-8517 tnftp: ftp client could be forced to execute arbitrary commands
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158286
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update tnftp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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