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Bug 125007

Summary:	insecure permissions for squid.conf
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Jason Gallagher <jason>
Component:	squid	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	jfeeney
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2005-489	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jason Gallagher 2004-06-02 00:31:02 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
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Description of problem:
/etc/squid/squid.conf may contain a plaintext password in the
cachemgr_passwd directive. Users with access may be able to see the
list of cached objects and shutdown the cache itself. A message on the
mailing list suggests non-world-readable permissions for this file
(http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200201/0539.html).
I suggest using ownership root:squid and permissions 0640. A fix to
the SPEC file might be:

130c130
< %config(noreplace) /etc/squid/squid.conf
---
> %config(noreplace) %attr(640,root,squid) /etc/squid/squid.conf


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
squid-2.5.STABLE3-5.3E

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install
2. examine permissions of /etc/squid/squid.conf

    

Actual Results:  File readable by all users.

Expected Results:  Should be readable only by root and user 'squid'.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-06-02 17:40:17 UTC

This issue also affects RHEL2.1

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-06-13 12:08:41 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-2005-489.html