Bug 174845

Summary:	CVE-2005-3631 /dev/input/* incorrect permissions
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	laroche, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	impact=important,embargo=20051220,reported=20051201,source=secalert
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-864	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2005-12-20 14:23:27 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	168430

Description Josh Bressers 2005-12-02 18:09:08 UTC

/dev/input/* incorrect permissions

This issue was reported to secalert by Richard Cunningham
/dev/input/* has permissions set to 644 by default.
This makes it possible for any user to sniff local user input
(password capturing being the most dangerous).

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-12-05 20:12:22 UTC

Harald,

What's your plan for this?  I've not communicated this to vendor-sec yet as I
would like to know what an appropriate embargo date should be?

Comment 9 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-12-20 14:23:27 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-2005-864.html

Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2005-12-20 15:13:37 UTC

Lifting embargo