Bug 171474

Summary:	CVE-2005-3088 fetchmailconf insecure configuration file
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	fetchmail	Assignee:	Miloslav Trmač <mitr>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	2.1	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=low,source=redhat,public=20051021,reported=20051021
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-823	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-10-21 18:55:22 UTC

http://decoy.wox.org/svn/fetchmail/trunk/fetchmail-SA-2005-02.txt

(Text stolen from the above advisory)

2. Problem description and Impact
=================================

The fetchmailconf program before and excluding version 1.49 opened the
run control file, wrote the configuration to it, and only then changed
the mode to 0600 (rw-------). Writing the file, which usually contains
passwords, before making it unreadable to other users, can expose
sensitive password information.

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-26 15:59:59 UTC

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-2005-823.html

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-11-10 13:41:17 UTC

This issue does not affect RHEL3 and RHEL4 since we only ship the fetchmailconf
program for RHEL2.1