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

[gremlin () gremlin ru]

On 08-Jun-2013 07:22:44 -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.

> On Jun 8, 2013, at 7:00 AM, gremlin () gremlin ru wrote:

- Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
- Why top-posting is considered the most annoying thing in messages?


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