Wu-Ftpd 2.4.2, 2.5, and 2.6 are commonly misconfigured on linux to allow users which only have a valid FTP account to execute code. This code takes advantage of this configuration, mentioned in SUID Advisory #1 to execute a backdoor on the remote host.
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