FreeBSD Not Affected

Updated:  December 21, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

The FreeBSD security officer, Kris Kennaway , posted a statement to Bugtraq regarding this issue: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/152187 "FreeBSD is not vulnerable"

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

However, this message was not signed with the FreeBSD security officer key; it was signed with a key unknown to the CERT/CC at this time: "Signature by unknown keyid: 0x68E840A5", presumably Kris's personal key.

IBM Not Affected

Notified:  December 21, 2000 Updated: December 22, 2000

Status

Not Affected

Vendor Statement

IBM's AIX operating system is not susceptible to this vulnerability.

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

NetBSD Affected

Updated:  December 21, 2000

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

NetBSD has published an advisory about this issue at: ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2000-018.txt.asc NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-018 Topic: One-byte buffer overrun in ftpd Version: All official releases up to and including 1.5 Severity: possible remote root compromise. Fixed: NetBSD-current: December 4, 2000 NetBSD 1.4 branch: December 14, 2000 NetBSD 1.5 branch: December 13, 2000

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

Good signature made 2000-12-20 18:48 GMT by key: 1024 bits, Key ID F8376205, Created 1997-07-01 "security-officer@netbsd.org"

OpenBSD Affected

Notified:  December 04, 2000 Updated: December 21, 2000

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

OpenBSD made a patch available to fix this problem on December 4, 2000 in OpenBSD 2.8 Errata 005: SECURITY FIX: Dec 4, 2000: http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html#ftpd An OpendBSD Security Advisory: Single-byte buffer overflow vulnerability in ftpd, was published on December 18, 2000: http://www.openbsd.org/advisories/ftpd_replydirname.txt

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.