Download Security Patch for ProFTPd

Researchers of ISS recently discovered a serious vulnerability in the popular FTP server for unix systems ProFTPD. The developers of ProFTPD then repaired all affected versions, anything above 1.2.7, and made them available for Download† Everyone is advised to upgrade their server:

X-Force Research at ISS has discovered a remote exploit in ProFTPD’s handling of ASCII translations that an attacker, by downloading a carefully crafted file, can exploit and gain a root shell.

The source distributions on ftp.proftpd.org have all been replaced with patched versions. All ProFTPD users are strongly urged to upgrade to one of the patched versions as soon as possible.