diff -u linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/ftpd/ftpd.c linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/ftpd/ftpd.c
--- linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/ftpd/ftpd.c
+++ linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/ftpd/ftpd.c
@@ -1729,7 +1729,7 @@
 static FILE * dataconn(const char *name, off_t size, const char *mode, int stou)
 {
 	char sizebuf[32];
-	FILE *file;
+	FILE *file = NULL;
 	int retry = 0, tos;
 
 	file_size = size;
@@ -1822,7 +1822,10 @@
 				    ERR_error_string(ERR_get_error(),NULL));
 			perror_reply(425, errbuf);
 			/* abort time methinks ... */
-			fclose(file);
+			if(file != NULL){
+				fclose(file);
+				file = NULL;
+			}
 			return NULL;
 		    } else {
 			if (ssl_debug_flag) {
diff -u linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/changelog linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/changelog
--- linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/changelog
+++ linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/changelog
@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
-linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-9ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
+linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-9.1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low
 
-  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes:
+  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining Ubuntu changes: (LP: #176175)
     - debian/control: Add update-inetd to ftpd-ssl's dependencies
     - debian/control: Add openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver dependencies
                       as ftpd-ssl needs an inet server to work
+    - debian/control: Bump to Standards-Version 3.7.3 
+    - debian/rules: Updated distclean
   * Modify Maintainer value to match Debian-Maintainer-Field Spec
 
- -- Lionel Porcheron <lionel.porcheron@ubuntu.com>  Fri, 04 May 2007 15:31:13 +0200
+ -- Pedro Fragoso <emberez@gmail.com>  Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:50:47 +0000
+
+linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-9.1) unstable; urgency=high
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload by the testing-security team.
+  * Fix remote denial of service cause by passing an
+    uninitialized file stream to fopen().Initializing file
+    with NULL and checking for NULL before calling fclose()
+    fixes this (CVE-2007-6263; Closes: #454733).
+
+ -- Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:34:40 +0100
 
 linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-9) unstable; urgency=low
 
@@ -30,15 +42,6 @@
 
  -- Cai Qian <caiqian@debian.org>  Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0800
 
-linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-6ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
-
-   * debian/control: Add update-inetd to ftpd-ssl's dependencies
-     (Closes Ubuntu: #76097).
-   * debian/control: Add openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver dependencies
-      as ftpd-ssl needs an inet server to work
-
- -- Lionel Porcheron <lionel@alveonet.org>  Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:30:13 +0100
-
 linux-ftpd-ssl (0.17.18+0.3-6) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Move the certificate file to /etc/ftpd-ssl. Patch from James Westby
diff -u linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/control linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/control
--- linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/control
+++ linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/control
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
 XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Cai Qian <caiqian@debian.org>
 Build-Depends: bison, debhelper (>= 4.0.0), libpam-dev, libssl-dev
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2.1
+Standards-Version: 3.7.3
 
 Package: ftpd-ssl
 Architecture: any
diff -u linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/rules linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/rules
--- linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/rules
+++ linux-ftpd-ssl-0.17.18+0.3/debian/rules
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 	dh_testdir
 	dh_testroot
 
-	-$(MAKE) distclean
+	-[ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) distclean
 
 	dh_clean