Bug 159502
| Summary: | CAN-2005-1760 sysreport includes proxy password in cleartext | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Issue Tracker <tao> |
| Component: | sysreport | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | laroche, tao |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | impact=moderate,reported=20050601,source=issuetracker | ||
| Fixed In Version: | RHSA-2005-502 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-06-13 12:22:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Issue Tracker
2005-06-03 07:44:25 UTC
This has a security conseqence as it breaks a security promise (sysreport says that it's goals are not to "the invasion of the user's privacy; and the collection of information that could be detrimental to the integrity of the system." I don't see this is a Sev1 however, it's security severity "moderate" at the most. i have taken a look at up2date file, there are 2 lines in this file. .. proxyPassword[comment]=The password to use for an authenticated proxy proxyPassword= .. with following lines it should fix this problem. cat up2date | grep -vi 'password' > up2date.newfile mv up2date.newfile up2date You should be able to get most of the relevant data out of my patch above I think (which Florian posted). In /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date there should be a line that matches the regex: \(.*password=\)\(.*\) The second part of that regex ( the \(.*\) should be the string representing the password. The patch above adds a fixup function to sysreport to allow you to easily strip out unwanted data from sensitive files like this Neil, i have fixed the match string in your patch, so it works fine now. i have already committed the changes in CVS. Should i do security errata for this, or just add into next RHEL-update? Since this affects all RHEL I'd prefer a single async errata for this. Since this flaw breaks a security promise it deserves a CVE name, therefore I've assigned CAN-2005-1760 to this issue. When run by the root user, sysreport includes the contents of the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date configuration file. If up2date has been configured to connect to a proxy server that requires an authentication password, that password is included in plain text in the system report. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-1760 to this issue. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-502.html |