RHSA-2020:1045 — Security Advisory

An update for lftp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

LFTP is a file transfer utility for File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and other commonly used protocols. It uses the readline library for input, and provides support for bookmarks, built-in monitoring, job control, and parallel transfer of multiple files at the same time.

Security Fix(es):

• lftp: particular remote file names may lead to current working directory erased (CVE-2018-10916)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.