DSA 849-1: New shorewall packages fix firewall bypass

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 849-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
October 8th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : shorewall
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-2317
Debian Bug : 318946

"Supernaut" noticed that shorewall, the Shoreline Firewall, could
generate an iptables configuration which is significantly more
permissive than the rule set given in the shorewall configuration, if
MAC verification are used in a non-default manner.

When MACLIST_DISPOSITION is set to ACCEPT in the shorewall.conf file,
all packets from hosts which fail the MAC verification pass through
the firewall, without further checks. When MACLIST_TTL is set to a
non-zero value, packets from hosts which pass the MAC verification
pass through the firewall, again without further checks.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.3-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.4.1-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your shorewall package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_2.2.3-2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 656 a280401e705da1a93b31e2b0d6abafb9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_2.2.3-2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 34181 e6d35af167daece754b263fb77285960
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 126841 df114b25a419d77915598de5844b423e

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/shorewall/shorewall_2.2.3-2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 151538 556f925a3f6393e1b7376686c1796d89


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show lt;pkggt;' and http://packages.debian.org/lt;pkggt;

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