Bug 441495 - No reason for bind binaries to be protected
Summary: No reason for bind binaries to be protected
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bind
Version: 5.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Adam Tkac
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-08 13:47 UTC by Chris Adams
Modified: 2018-08-18 14:49 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-01-20 22:16:34 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2009:0246 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE bind bug fix update 2009-01-20 16:06:48 UTC

Description Chris Adams 2008-04-08 13:47:17 UTC
I set up a new RHEL 5 nameserver today, and the named user is unable to use rndc
(despite having permission to read the rndc.conf/rndc.key files).  I realized
that the rndc binary (and all of the other binaries from the bind RPM) are only
readable by root.

There is no reason for this protection, as none of the binaries are
setuid/setgid or contain private information (especially since anyone could
build their own copy of bind, even from the RHEL SRPM, to get the same rndc
functionality).  This permission setting just means that access cannot be
delegated, which is actually less secure (as now more system operation can only
be done as root).

This is also an issue with the Fedora bind RPM, although there some (but not
all) binaries have been changed to world-readable/executable (see BZ 200465 and
BZ 427826 for example).

Comment 1 Adam Tkac 2008-04-25 11:50:07 UTC
You're right, current permissions are not really good. I'm going to revise them
in next bind update.

Comment 2 Chris Adams 2008-04-25 12:52:07 UTC
Thanks.

Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2008-07-21 23:03:49 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in
the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like
this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your
support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?".

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 22:16:34 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 therefore 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/RHBA-2009-0246.html


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