--- title: "CVE-2010-2251\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-2251?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2010-2251 Publication date 6 July 2010 Last updated 24 July 2024 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description The get1 command, as used by lftpget, in LFTP before 4.0.6 does not properly validate a server-provided filename before determining the destination filename of a download, which allows remote servers to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a Content-Disposition header that suggests a crafted filename, and possibly execute arbitrary code as a consequence of writing to a dotfile in a home directory. [Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-2251?format=md#notes) ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | lftp | 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 4.0.2-1ubuntu0.1 | | 9.10 karmic | Fixed 3.7.15-1ubuntu2.1 | | 9.04 jaunty | Fixed 3.7.8-1ubuntu0.1 | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Fixed 3.6.1-1ubuntu0.1 | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## Notes --- ### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur) dapper's lftp is too old to support server-suggested filenames ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2251) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2251) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-2251) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2251) ### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) + [USN-984-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-984-1) + LFTP vulnerability + 7 September 2010 ### Other references * * *