About:
The NetKit distribution contains the following programs: biff, comsatd; finger, fingerd; ftpd; inetd, ping; rpc.bootparamd; ftp; talk, talkd; routed, ripquery; rpcgen, rpcinfo; rup, rusers, rpc.rusersd; rwall, rpc.rwalld; ruptime, rwho, rwhod; telnet, telnetd; tftp, tftpd; timed, timedc; write, writed. Each group of programs can be downloaded separately, or all can be downloaded at once by getting the "netkit-combo" package. glibc systems do not need netkit-rpc. Please note that NetKit is not the same as net-tools.

Release focus: N/A

Changes:
Fixes for security problems in the FTP daemon (linux-ftpd package) and rpcgen (netkit-rpc package) related to printf format string handling, bugfixes to several programsi, and a few new features. For more information, see the comp.os.linux.announce posting.

Author:
NetKit maintainers (we are not the authors) <netbug __at__ ftp __dot__ uk __dot__ linux __dot__ org> [contact developer]

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Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original)
[Topic]		System :: Networking

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	0.17	30-Jul-2000	BSD License (original)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
0.17	N/A	30-Jul-2000 21:00

 Articles referencing this project

Debian: New linux-ftpd packages fix access control bypass by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, Nov 25th 2006 13:30 Debian: New netkit-telnet-ssl packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 29th 2005 05:41 Debian: New netkit-telnet packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Mar 29th 2005 00:18 Debian: New netkit-rwho packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Feb 11th 2005 07:34 Debian: New netkit-telnet-ssl packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Oct 18th 2004 02:33

Debian: New netkit-telnet packages fix invalid free by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Oct 3rd 2004 06:46 Debian: New netkit-telnet-ssl package fixes format string vulnerability by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 18th 2004 01:02 SuSE: telnetd remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 4th 2001 02:06 Debian: telnetd-ssl AYT buffer overflow by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Aug 14th 2001 10:18 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] tftp in netkit-0.17 is plain broken
by neal nuckolls - Oct 5th 2001 17:46:55

The netkit-tftp-0.17, which is distributed
in RedHat 7.1, plain doesn't work.
The behavior is to send the WRQ request,
get the ack, then exit before sending any data.
Whomever added the "firsttime" variable to
the loop in tftp.c sendfile() must have never
tested their change because it would never
have worked.

save yourself some time and
remove it and replace it with the tftp
from the GNU inetutils package.

Is anyone MAINTAINING netkit?

neal nuckolls

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[»] Re: tftp in netkit-0.17 is plain broken
by Frédéric L. W. Meunier - Oct 6th 2001 02:00:16


> The netkit-tftp-0.17, which is
> distributed
> in RedHat 7.1, plain doesn't work.
> The behavior is to send the WRQ
> request,
> get the ack, then exit before sending
> any data.
> Whomever added the
> "firsttime" variable to
> the loop in tftp.c sendfile() must
> have never
> tested their change because it would
> never
> have worked.
>
> save yourself some time and
> remove it and replace it with the
> tftp
> from the GNU inetutils package.
>
> Is anyone MAINTAINING netkit?
>
> neal nuckolls

Last I heard Red Hat would be the new maintainer, but I only see *.rpm (not news since they don't make packages in .tar.gz for the software they maintain - NEWT, popt...).

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