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From the advisory:

"A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Windows FTP client in validating the name of a downloaded file. This can be exploited to write files into arbitrary locations on an affected system.

Successful exploitation requires that the user is e.g. tricked into downloading a file with a specially-crafted filename from an FTP server."

DANGER: moderately critical

SOLUTION: use Windows Update to apply specific patches
Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:23 am
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