SunOS 4.1.4 ftp serious bug

Homer W. Smith (homer@LIGHTLINK.COM)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:46:41 -0400

This may be old hat, but it has bitten me again recently and
I am surprised this bug is allowed to live.

Running SunOS 4.1.4

ftp from SunOS machine A to any other machine B.

cd remote directory

lcd to any random directory NOT the directory that contains
the file you wish to upload.

put /absolute/path/to/file

This will *ERASE* the file on machine A!

Homer

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