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Bug#: 186885
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-07-28 12:17 0000 
A weakness has been reported in MLDonkey, which can be exploited by malicious
people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The weakness is caused due to MLDonkey loading "$MLDONKEY/web_infos/*" after
activating the network modules. This may allow other peers to connect from
blocked IP addresses for a short time span.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 2.9.0.

Solution:
Update to version 2.9.0.

------- Comment #1 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-07-28 12:19:38 0000 ------- 
setting status and cc'ing herd. net-p2p, are we okay to call arches for marking
2.9.0 stable? plese advise.

------- Comment #2 From Raúl Porcel 2007-07-28 12:51:59 0000 ------- 
Yeah, go ahead :)

------- Comment #3 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-07-28 13:20:06 0000 ------- 
ok, here we go :)
arches, please test and mark stable net-p2p/mldonkey-2.9.0. Target keywords
are:
"~alpha amd64 hppa ia64 ppc ~sparc x86"

------- Comment #4 From Raúl Porcel 2007-07-28 17:00:59 0000 ------- 
ia64/x86 stable

------- Comment #5 From spiralvoice 2007-07-28 18:22:35 0000 ------- 
Small comments about this problem:
- for older versions of MLDonkey: an IP blocklist file can be loaded using
option ip_blocking, this way the blocklist is loaded before network modules are
started
- its not easy to backport the patch to load web_infos/* before network modules
are starting, so using 2.9.0 is advised as its a bug-fix release

------- Comment #6 From Steve Dibb 2007-07-28 18:24:05 0000 ------- 
amd64 stable

------- Comment #7 From Tobias Scherbaum 2007-07-29 16:33:59 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #8 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-08-06 14:15:07 0000 ------- 
hppa, something wrong here?

------- Comment #9 From René Nussbaumer 2007-08-07 07:20:55 0000 ------- 
Sorry about the delay. Stable on hppa.

------- Comment #10 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-08-07 07:44:46 0000 ------- 
This one is ready for GLSA decision. I vote NO.

------- Comment #11 From Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen 2007-08-11 06:48:49 0000 ------- 
Voting NO and closing. Feel free to reopen if you disagree.
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