Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information

[gremlin () gremlin ru]

On 08-Jun-2013 07:43:21 -0400, larry Cashdollar wrote:

> > > 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.
> > Yes. And, once again, that's a misconfiguration - the file should
> > be created as 0600 root:root during installation and only after
> > that chmod() and chown() may be applied.
> I'd agree if this were a configuration file we were talking about,
> but it's an installation script.

So what? The installation script may contain the `umask 077` line,
can't it?

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