Bug Fix Advisory ftp bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0507-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-05-27
Last updated on: 2008-05-27
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated ftp package that fixes a bug is now available.

The ftp package provides the standard UNIX® command line File Transfer
Protocol (FTP) client. FTP is a widely used protocol for transferring
files over the Internet, and for archiving files.

When the "case" command was used to turn on remote computer file name case
mapping, using the "mget" command to download files may have caused FTP to
overwrite the files, on the client machine, with the wrong content, or
fail when mixed-case file names were used. For example, downloading
multiple files may have resulted in a single file, containing the content
of a different file.

Users of ftp are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves
this issue.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.src.rpm     cd73d8829b339781312a1bbf80217316
 
IA-32:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.i386.rpm     4baf02a20f3e5b72e60190c1eb8b1d74
 
x86_64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm     c9f3d6871f46d563aa6cf47b96a19516
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.src.rpm     cd73d8829b339781312a1bbf80217316
 
IA-32:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.i386.rpm     4baf02a20f3e5b72e60190c1eb8b1d74
 
IA-64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.ia64.rpm     95d6d20d7a8b3f55eb0682a0e2dc9db8
 
PPC:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.ppc.rpm     4173bcefd7f65e2a3de202c7b6c24596
 
s390:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.s390.rpm     54ebaaa17f416cdf1d2fab779306e1d9
 
s390x:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.s390x.rpm     5dc1431b8419219cf2513f905e91057c
 
x86_64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm     c9f3d6871f46d563aa6cf47b96a19516
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.src.rpm     cd73d8829b339781312a1bbf80217316
 
IA-32:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.i386.rpm     4baf02a20f3e5b72e60190c1eb8b1d74
 
IA-64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.ia64.rpm     95d6d20d7a8b3f55eb0682a0e2dc9db8
 
x86_64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm     c9f3d6871f46d563aa6cf47b96a19516
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.src.rpm     cd73d8829b339781312a1bbf80217316
 
IA-32:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.i386.rpm     4baf02a20f3e5b72e60190c1eb8b1d74
 
IA-64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.ia64.rpm     95d6d20d7a8b3f55eb0682a0e2dc9db8
 
x86_64:
ftp-0.17-23.el4_6.1.x86_64.rpm     c9f3d6871f46d563aa6cf47b96a19516
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

447940 - ftp case directive botches mget when mixed case filenames exit


Keywords

ftp


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