From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed Mar 04 2009 - 18:10:04 CST

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TITLE:
Arno's IPTables Firewall Insecure Restart Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34116

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34116/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Arno's IPTables Firewall, which
can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error while restarting the
firewall and can be exploited to send normally restricted network
packets to an affected system.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.9.0b.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.9.0b.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by Lonnie Abelbeck via the project's mailing list.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/pipermail/firewall/2009-February/001046.html
http://rocky.eld.leidenuniv.nl/iptables-firewall/devel/1.9/CHANGELOG

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