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Re: CVE ASSIGN: pnp4nagios: process_perfdata.cfg world readable


From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo () scientia net>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:42:22 +0200

Hi Kurt.

Assigning a CVE might be a bit overkill... ?! ;-)

Anyway... let be forward this to the Debian bug report for the records:

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:28 -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683879

Package: pnp4nagios-bin
Version: 0.6.16-1
Severity: important
Tags: security


Hi.

Marking as severity important as it might have security implications.

process_perfdata.cfg shouldn't be world-readable.
Event though not used per default in Debian, it contains the "KEY"
option which may be used (in alternative to "KEY_FILE") to hold
the Gearman shared secret.

Cheers,
Chris.

==============================
This affects 0.6 only, 0.4 doesn't support KEYS.

# A shared password which will be used for
# encryption of data pakets. Should be at least 8
# bytes long. Maximum length is 32 characters.
#
KEY = should_be_changed

=============================

Please use CVE-2012-3457 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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