Package: rpcbind
Version: 0.2.0-4.1
Severity: important

rpcbind in "secure" mode only allows calls from the loopback address.

The check for this is "addr == loopback && port < reserved".

This is too strict, why the restriction on the port?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages rpcbind depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libtirpc1                     0.2.0-2    transport-independent RPC library
ii  libwrap0                      7.6.q-19   Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

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