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ProFTPD 1.3.3 Server
According to http://www.proftpd.org site, some variations of the 1.3.3 version of ProFTPD were compromised. Apparently the 1.3.3d version, which was released in December, contains the fix. When we l...
I wouldn't recommend trying
Netgear has been known to address specific issues with this software in the past, possibly meaning they have customised the install, and also not move to newer releases as quickly as expected due to problems they have encountered during testing suggesting that simply compiling a new version of ProFTPD and expecting it to just work without any side effects may be risky.
Rather it would be more interesting to see if the recently released 4.2.18 has a newer version of ProFTPD. (Or to get a definitive response from Netgear to this question)
Netgear has been known to address specific issues with this software in the past, possibly meaning they have customised the install, and also not move to newer releases as quickly as expected due to problems they have encountered during testing suggesting that simply compiling a new version of ProFTPD and expecting it to just work without any side effects may be risky.
Rather it would be more interesting to see if the recently released 4.2.18 has a newer version of ProFTPD. (Or to get a definitive response from Netgear to this question)
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