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LFTP is a sophisticated file transfer program for the FTP and HTTP protocols. Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files in parallel. It is designed with reliability in mind. It was discovered that lftp did not properly escape shell metacharacters when generating shell scripts using the &quot mirror --script&quot command. A mirroring script generated to download files from a malicious FTP server could allow an attacker controlling the FTP server to run an arbitrary command as the user running lftp. (CVE-2007-2348) This update also fixes the following bugs: * when using the &quot mirror&quot or &quot get&quot commands with the &quot -c&quot option, lftp did not check for some specific conditions that could result in the program becoming unresponsive, hanging and the command not completing. For example, when waiting for a directory listing, if lftp received a &quot 226&quot message, denoting an empty directory, it previously ignored the message and kept waiting. With this update, these conditions are properly checked for and lftp no longer hangs when &quot -c&quot is used with &quot mirror&quot or &quot get&quot . (BZ#422881) * when using the &quot put&quot , &quot mput&quot or &quot reput&quot commands over a Secure FTP (SFTP) connection, specifying the &quot -c&quot option sometimes resulted in corrupted files of incorrect size. With this update, using these commands over SFTP with the &quot -c&quot option works as expected, and transferred files are no longer corrupted in the transfer process. (BZ#434294) * previously, LFTP linked to the OpenSSL library. OpenSSL's license is, however, incompatible with LFTP's GNU GPL license and LFTP does not include an exception allowing OpenSSL linking. With this update, LFTP links to the GnuTLS (GNU Transport Layer Security) library, which is released under the GNU LGPL license. Like OpenSSL, GnuTLS implements the SSL and TLS protocols, so functionality has not changed. (BZ#458777) * running &quot help mirror&quot from within lftp only presented a sub-set of the available options compared to the full list presented in the man page. With this update, running &quot help mirror&quot in lftp presents the same list of mirror options as is available in the Commands section of the lftp man page. (BZ#461922) * LFTP imports gnu-lib from upstream. Subsequent to gnu-lib switching from GNU GPLv2 to GNU GPLv3, the LFTP license was internally inconsistent, with LFTP licensed a ... Description truncated, for more information please check the Reference URL

lftp on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-September/016139.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25