Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway Monday December 16, 2024 -- Dante v1.4.4 Inferno Nettverk A/S is pleased to announce a new release of Dante - a free SOCKS client and server implementation for UNIX. Dante is developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a software engineering company located in Oslo, Norway. Inferno Nettverk specialises in services related to software development on UNIX/Linux and embedded/real-time platforms. Please see "http://www.inet.no/english/services.html" for more information about our services. Dante is free software, available under a BSD-like license. Inferno Nettverk also provides commercial services related to Dante. These services include 24/7 support via phone and email, customised installations/tuning of Dante, development, porting and embedding. The Dante software consists of two parts, packed into one archive: 1) The server part, supporting SOCKS v4 and SOCKS v5. 2) The client (socksify) part, supporting SOCKS v4, SOCKS v5, HTTP v1.0, and UPnP. In addition to standard SOCKS authentication methods, Dante includes the following additional methods: - BSD Authentication (OpenBSD). - LDAP. - PAM. - RFC931 ("ident"). This release is mainly a bugfix release to fix a security issue. Changes in this release include the following: Generic changes: o Various configure/build fixes. Server changes: o Fix potential security issue CVE-2024-54662, related to "socksmethod" use in client/hostid-rules. Reported by Igor Medovolkin (igor.aka.igro@gmail.com.example.com) Please see "https://www.inet.no/dante/advisory-2024-12-16.txt" for more information about this. o Add a missing call to setgroups(2). Reported by Leo Client changes: o Patch to fix compilation with libminiupnp 2.2.8. From Emily See the NEWS file for a more complete list of changes. Known problems: see the BUGS file. Users upgrading from previous versions of Dante: see the UPGRADE file. For more information about Dante, please see "http://www.inet.no/dante/". For more information about Inferno Nettverk A/S, please see "http://www.inet.no/en/inferno.html".