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Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information
From: larry Cashdollar <larry0 () me com>
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:22:44 -0400
According to the bug report details that's a race condition. A malicious user is using a vulnerability in the way the installation script handles changing file permissions to disclose sensitive information. Larry C$ On Jun 8, 2013, at 7:00 AM, gremlin () gremlin ru wrote:
On 08-Jun-2013 12:44:45 +0200, vladz wrote:The file "/etc/mysql/debian.cnf", which contains plain text credentials for the "debian-sys-maint" mysql user, is created in an insecure manner during the package installation phase. This can lead a non-privileged local user to disclose its content and use this special account to perform administration tasks. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711600 Could you allocate CVE id for this issue?That's not a security issue, but a misconfiguration (alas, very common for Deb*an packages), so at least I doubt that deserves a CVE. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru> GPG key ID: 0xEF3B1FA8, keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net GPG key fingerprint: 8832 FE9F A791 F796 8AC9 6E4E 909D AC45 EF3B 1FA8
Current thread:
- CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information vladz (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information gremlin (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information larry Cashdollar (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information gremlin (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information larry Cashdollar (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information gremlin (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information larry Cashdollar (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information larry Cashdollar (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information gremlin (Jun 08)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information Kurt Seifried (Jun 08)
- RE: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information Christey, Steven M. (Jun 09)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information gremlin (Jun 10)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information Florian Weimer (Jun 10)
- Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information Henri Salo (Jun 10)