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  "entity_type": "Publication",
  "title": "proftpd1.2.0pre6patch",
  "source_url": "https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1999/Sep/314",
  "publication_date": "1999-09-17",
  "publisher": "Bugtraq",
  "credit_display": "Tymm Twillman",
  "credit_role": "specific vulnerability disclosure and patch author"
}
An early located disclosure, not a proven universal first. Newsham2000 and scut/teamteso2001 are separate later expositions.
Metadata only; no full paper hosted.