Bug 17496

Summary:	Improper file permissions in /var/spool/news
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	inn	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
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Version:	7.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description Enrico Scholz 2000-09-14 10:16:40 UTC

inn has the capability to authenticate users. So it's possible to put
sensitive data into local newsgroups (e.g. postings from maillists).

Because the whole /var/spool/news hierarchy is world-readable:

$ rpm -ql -vv inn
...
drwxrwxr-x    1 news    news             4096 Sep 14 05:28 /var/spool/news
drwxrwxr-x    1 news    news             4096 Sep 14 05:28
/var/spool/news/archive
...

a local user without rights to read the NNTP-spool can do it anyhow by
going into this directory and reading the raw-data

I suggest to remove the world-readability

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2001-01-22 12:53:21 UTC

I'd like to leave the spool dir public readable. Please consider using
a new machine or chaning the perms just on that one box instead of
making this change within the standard rpm of Red Hat.