Debian Security Advisory
DSA-845-1 mason -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 06 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- mason
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 222384.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3118. - More information:
-
Christoph Martin noticed that upon configuration mason, which interactively creates a Linux packet filtering firewall, does not install the init script to actually load the firewall during system boot. This will leave the machine without a firewall after a reboot.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.13.0.92-2woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0-2.2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your mason package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_0.13.0.92-2woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_0.13.0.92-2woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_0.13.0.92.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_0.13.0.92-2woody1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_0.13.0.92-2woody1_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_1.0.0-2.2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_1.0.0-2.2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_1.0.0-2.2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mason/mason_1.0.0-2.2_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.