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Re: Shorewall bug



On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:03:50AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:28:00AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone know whether there are woody packages for these corrected
> > versions?
> 
> Actually no, I'm not sure wether the Security Team will publish a DSA 
> realted to this issue since it's non-critical. For more information see 
> #256377. There are several mitigation facts:
> 
> - it does not affect normal operation, it only appears when you do a 
> 'shorewall show' or 'shorewall restore'
> 
> - the temporary file creation is unsafe, but not too bad

Thanks Javier.

Johann


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