CVE-2005-3118

HIGH 7.5CVE-2005-3118 · Published 06/10/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-3118 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting mason (william stearns).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mason william_stearns	`= 1.0.0`	No fix yet

Description

Mason before 1.0.0 does not install the init script after the user uses Mason to configure a firewall, which causes the system to run without a firewall after a reboot.

References

secunia.com/advisories/17084 · Patch
debian.org/security/2005/dsa-845
osvdb.org/19875
securityfocus.com/bid/15019
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1976

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