Access Restriction Bypass Affecting freebsd package, versions [4.1.1,4.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383112
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Aug 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Aug 2001

CVE-2001-1155  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for freebsd.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. TCP Wrappers (tcp_wrappers) in FreeBSD 4.1.1 through 4.3 with the PARANOID ACL option enabled does not properly check the result of a reverse DNS lookup, which could allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via DNS spoofing.

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