Debian: New mason packages fix missing init script
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 845-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze October 6th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : mason Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : remote Debian-specific: yes CVE ID : CAN-2005-3118 Debian Bug : 222384 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. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 541 ecb992ca78a35ca58a14eeab6cf4f15c Size/MD5 checksum: 3659 222ab145878984b9e181eea0046b6526 Size/MD5 checksum: 218789 e1de238f5adc99bdbd519c92513f96b4 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 184824 e32b3597c9bbf77624e205a6c4a8fdd2 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 593 e899d7d2eeee90bdf85b37053613e0b4 Size/MD5 checksum: 47013 0a8b604f753b008eaf3a5f2cca030023 Size/MD5 checksum: 506940 62785d59e03df309fed8abe97e479af0 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 423220 cc8e8f0ed22d2efdbb0e9d0e4cd61d8e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org