Bug 271941 (CVE-2007-4601)

Summary:	CVE-2007-4601 libwrap ignores rules under certain circumstances
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bugs, tjanouse, twoerner
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4601
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-08-31 16:06:22 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4601
to the following vulnerability:

A regression error in tcp-wrappers 7.6.dbs-10 and 7.6.dbs-11 does not properly handle connections to services that use libwrap but do not specify server connection information, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.

References:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/135332
http://bugs.debian.org/405342
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-507-1

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-08-31 16:08:45 UTC

Not vulnerable. This issue was specific to a patch from Debian project and did
not affect versions of tcp_wrappers packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux.