vsftpd

vsftpd
Developer(s) Chris Evans
Stable release
3.0.3 / July 25, 2015 (2015-07-25)
Operating system Unix-like systems
Type FTP daemon
License GPL
Website security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html

vsftpd, (or very secure FTP daemon),[1] is an FTP server for Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports IPv6 and SSL.

vsftpd supports explicit (since 2.0.0) and implicit (since 2.1.0) FTPS.

vsftpd is the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distributions.

History

In July 2011, it was discovered that vsftpd version 2.3.4 downloadable from the master site had been compromised.[2][3] Users logging into a compromised vsftpd-2.3.4 server may issue a ":)" smileyface as the username and gain a command shell on port 6200.[3] This was not an issue of a security hole in vsftpd, instead, an unknown attacker had uploaded a different version of vsftpd which contained a backdoor. Since then, the site was moved to Google App Engine.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "README file from source code".
  2. ↑ vsftpd Compromised Source Packages Backdoor Vulnerability at SecurityFocus
  3. 1 2 Evans, Chris (2011-06-03). "Alert: vsftpd download backdoored". Retrieved July 7, 2011.
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