Re: vsftpd using ls? [was: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 1 Update: coreutils-5.0-34.1]

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:32:52PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:

> Hello Tim, all,
> 
> > An updated coreutils package is available fixing an issue in the ls(1)
> > utility, described at:
> > 
> > http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0853
> > 
> > Note that this vulnerability affects Internet-facing services which execute
> > ls(1) with user-supplied input, and although wu-ftpd is one such service it
> > is not supplied with Fedora Core 1.
> 
> I am curious to know if vsftpd calls ls, or uses it's own
> implementation. How about some of the other ftp daemons? Other services
> in general?

The vsftpd daemon uses its own built-in implementation.

Tim.
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