The FTP bounce attack as some people here have already noted, is quite
old.
A paper which has not been mentioned is one written by Hobbit which is
available at ftp://ftp.avian.org/random/ftp-attack . Hobbit documented
and wrote fixes for this problem quite some time ago. In fact, I believe
this was the first paper really describing the problem and Hobbit may very
well have been the one to discover it, although of this I am not sure.
In any event, the paper is very succinct and goes a long way towards
explaining the problem at length as well as showing how intruders etc. may
use it.
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