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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:42:22 +0200
From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@...entia.net>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>, 683879@...s.debian.org
Cc: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE ASSIGN: pnp4nagios: process_perfdata.cfg world readable

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)
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