Bug 825275 (CVE-2012-2679)

Summary:	CVE-2012-2679 rhncfg: Insecure permissions used for /var/log/rhncfg-actions file
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cperry, jpazdziora, mmraka, msuchy, mzazrivec, security-response-team, sherr
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	824707, 832037
Bug Blocks:	825281

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-05-25 14:18:22 UTC

It was discovered that Red Hat Network Configuration Client set insecure (0644) permissions on the /var/log/rhncfg-actions file used to store (besides terminal) the output of different RHN Client actions (diff, verify etc.). A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain sensitive information, if the rhncfg-client diff action has been used to query differences between the (normally for unprivileged user not readable) config files stored by RHN and those, deployed on the system.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-08 11:42:33 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-2679 has been assigned for this issue.

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-14 11:09:09 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the rhncfg package, as shipped with Fedora release of 15, 16, and 17. Please schedule an update.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-06-14 11:10:33 UTC

Created rhncfg tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 832037]

Comment 9 Murray McAllister 2012-10-09 07:42:06 UTC

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Paul Wouters of Red Hat.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-15 18:39:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 5
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 5.3.LL
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 5.6.Z
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 6
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 6.0.Z
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 6.1.Z
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 6.2.Z
  Red Hat Network Tools for RHEL 6.3.Z

Via RHSA-2012:1369 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1369.html