Bug#868730: rkhunter: /var/lib/rkhunter/tmp shouldn't be world-readable

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Tue Jul 18 01:34:45 UTC 2017


Package: rkhunter
Version: 1.4.4-2
Severity: normal
Tags: security


Hi.

I think this was even the case previously:
/var/lib/rkhunter/tmp should be only readable/listable by root:root.

rkhunter makes temp copies of security relevant files there, and while
right now the copies it makes have safe permissions, leaving this dir
world-readable for no good reason just calls for an error that can be
exploited in some way.

Cheers,
Chris.



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