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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:26:16 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Ralf Schlatterbeck <rsc@...tux.com>, Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Michel Alexandre Salim <michel+fdr@...vestre.me>,
Richard Jones <richard@...hanicalcat.net>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Request -- roundup: Multiple XSS flaws
plus other security related fixes corrected in upstream 1.4.20 version
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On 11/10/2012 05:28 AM, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:54:46AM -0500, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
>> [A] * issue2550729: Fix password history display for anydbm
>> backend, thanks to Ralf Hemmecke for reporting. (Ralf) [3]
>> http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550729
>>
>> [D] * Fix wrong execute permissions on some files, thanks to
>> Cheer Xiao for the patch. (Ralf)
>>
>> Cc-ed Ralf Schlatterbeck on this post too to clarify, if issues
>> [A] and [D] would also have security implications / IOW if those
>> would be security flaws too. Ralf please clarify. Thank you,
>> Jan.
>
> [A] Doesn't have security implications if roundup is correnctly
> configured. The bug would create a python backtrace. Unless the
> "debug" option in section [web] is set (which is explicitly
> discouraged) this will only display "an error has occurred" in the
> web-interface. Even if someone sets the debug option in a
> production release only the hashed password could be disclosed.
> Note that this bug only affects the anydbm backend which should not
> be used for a production version either.
How is the password hashed?
> [D] No security implications: Fixed some permissions on files in
> roundup/cgi and locale directories. These are not accessible via
> the web-server. So this doesn't constitute a remote vulnerability.
> Local users don't gain anything executing these files as no
> privilege escalation is involved (they could copy the file which is
> readable anyway and make their local copy executable).
>
> Ralf
>
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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