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
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
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.