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Re: nginx world-readable logdir


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:41:50 -0700

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On 02/22/2013 01:15 AM, gremlin () gremlin ru wrote:
On 22-Feb-2013 00:29:48 -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:

I just noticed my nginx logdir and its content are 
world-readable: What do you think about?
About misconfiguration? Nothing: % grep create
/etc/logrotate.d/nginx create 640 root wheel
What are the initial permissions prior to log rotation?

Of course, exactly the same - 640, root:wheel :-)

I've built my own package (for Openwall GNU/*/Linux, not yet in
mainstream), and there I use explicit log file creation in the
%post section (touch && chown && chmod) without relying on a umask
(although in Owl it's restrictive by default: 077).

So I think that ${subject} is just a misconfiguration.



Welp I confirmed it on Fedora 16. So at least some things are affected.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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