Ubuntu Security Notice 4540-1 - Denis Andzakovic discovered that atftpd incorrectly handled certain malformed packets. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted packet to cause atftpd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Denis Andzakovic discovered that atftpd did not properly lock the thread list mutex. An attacker could send a large number of tftpd packets simultaneously when running atftpd in daemon mode to cause atftpd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
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