TITLE:
distcc IP-based Access Control Rules Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12711

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12711/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
distcc 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1994/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in distcc, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error, which causes the
IP-based access control rules to be incorrectly interpreted on 64-bit
platforms.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.16.
http://distcc.samba.org/download.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://distcc.samba.org/ftp/distcc/distcc-2.16.NEWS

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