Bug 18726 – only_from should use numerical IP address

Bug 18726 - only_from should use numerical IP address

Summary:	only_from should use numerical IP address

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	samba (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact:	Dale Lovelace
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Keywords:	Security

Duplicates:	22995 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2000-10-09 12:37 EDT by Tim Waugh
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:29 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2000-10-16 13:25:23 EDT
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Description Tim Waugh 2000-10-09 12:37:05 EDT

/etc/xinetd.d/swat currently has:

	only_from = localhost

This causes xinetd to do a reverse name lookup for each connection on that
service to see if it's canonical name is 'localhost'.  For better security
it should read:

	only_from = 127.0.0.1

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 13:01:53 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16573 ***

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2000-10-16 13:09:10 EDT

No, this is something different: it's a security problem (DNS spoofing) rather
than a confused application.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 13:25:20 EDT

It's the same fix, however. :)

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-16 13:33:25 EDT

... and it's fixed in -22.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-18 18:19:50 EST

*** Bug 22995 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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