USN-6589-1: FileZilla vulnerability

18 January 2024

FileZilla could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

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Releases

Packages

  • filezilla - Full-featured graphical FTP/FTPS/SFTP client

Details

Fabian Baeumer, Marcus Brinkmann and Joerg Schwenk discovered that the SSH
protocol used in FileZilla is prone to a prefix truncation attack, known as
the "Terrapin attack". A remote attacker could use this issue to downgrade or
disable some security features and obtain sensitive information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 23.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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