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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-20 Moderate: Shorewall Security Policy Bypass

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2005
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Gentoo has released a security advisory addressing a Shorewall vulnerability; ensure to implement correct configurations to mitigate potential bypass risks. Maintain your security!
The "unaffected" version was incorrectly set to 2.4.1 in the initial advisory, the correct "unaffected" version is 2.4.2

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE] GLSA 200507-20:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: Shorewall: Security policy bypass Date: July 22, 2005 Updated: September 14, 2005 Bugs: #99398 ID: 200507-20:02

Errata ===== The "unaffected" version was incorrectly set to 2.4.1 in the initial advisory, the correct "unaffected" version is 2.4.2.
The corrected sections appear below.
Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in Shorewall allows clients authenticated by MAC address filtering to bypass all other security rules.
Background ========= Shorewall is a high level tool for configuring Netfilter, the firewall facility included in the Linux Kernel.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------...

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