From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 10:50:31 CST

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TITLE:
Frox Deny ACL Security Bypass Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14182

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14182/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Frox 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4619/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Frox, which can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when parsing Deny ACLs.
This can be exploited to bypass some Deny ACLs and gain access
to/from systems, which should be blocked.

The vulnerability affects versions 0.7.16 and 0.7.17.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.7.18.
http://frox.sourceforge.net/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6492850&forum_id=1822

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