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Bug 1158759

Summary:	Wrong permission for configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who on rhel7.1
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Liushihui <shihliu>
Component:	virt-who	Assignee:	Radek Novacek <rnovacek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Li Bin Liu <liliu>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.1	CC:	gxing, liliu, ovasik, sgao
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	virt-who-0.11-3.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who was world-readable. Consequence: Any user on the system might read passwords from the configuration file. Fix: Remove read permission for others from the file. Result: File is now only readable by root user. This affects only new deployments. For current deployments, it is advised to set the rights to 600 for /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2015-03-05 10:23:26 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	1088732

Description Liushihui 2014-10-30 07:28:53 UTC

Description of problem:
Configuration file /etc/sysconfig/virt-who may contain passwords but its permissions are 644 (rw-r--r--). It should be 600 (rw-------) to prevent non-root users to read the configuration file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-who-0.11-2.el7.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Check the permission of virt-who config file.
[root@hp-z220-03 20141030094255]# ll /etc/sysconfig/virt-who 
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1976 Oct 30 11:18 /etc/sysconfig/virt-who

Actual results:
its permissions are 644 (rw-r--r--)

Expected results:
It should be 600 (rw-------) to prevent non-root users to read the configuration file.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Radek Novacek 2014-11-05 11:55:58 UTC

Fixed in virt-who-0.11-3.el7.

Comment 4 Liushihui 2014-11-12 08:42:27 UTC

Verified it on virt-who-0.11-3.el7.noarch.

Steps to verify:
1.Check the permission of virt-who config file. it's 600 (rw-------)
 [root@hp-z220-06 sysconfig]# ls -alt virt-who
-rw-------. 1 root root 1977 Nov 12 14:57 virt-who

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 10:23:26 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0430.html