A vulnerability has been identified in LFTP, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in the "MirrorJob::HandleFile()" [MirrorJob.cc] function that does not properly validate certain data, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary shell commands by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted lftp script.
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2007-04-30 : Initial release
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