Bug 364331

Summary: iptables leaks a file descriptor before fork/exec
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Fenn <tim.fenn>
Component: iptablesAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tim Fenn 2007-11-02 17:48:44 UTC 
Description of problem:

iptables is not closing open file descriptors before calling fork/exec - see
discussion on fedora-selinux list:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2007-October/msg00033.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

iptables-ipv6-1.3.8-2.1.fc7
iptables-1.3.8-2.1.fc7

How reproducible:

always

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Additional info:

tried to file on iptables/netfilter bugzilla page
(http://bugzilla.netfilter.org/), but it seems to be nonfunctional.
Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2007-11-05 16:13:59 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 312191 ***