[Pkg-mediawiki-devel] Bug#550940: generated LocalSettings.php should not be world-readable

Marcus Better marcus at better.se
Wed Oct 14 09:06:33 UTC 2009


Package: mediawiki
Version: 1:1.15.1-1
Severity: important

After running the web-based initial configuration of mediawiki
(/var/lib/mediawiki/config/index.php), it created a LocalSettings.php
and instructed me to place it in /etc/mediawiki:

~$ ls -l /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
-rw-rw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 4536 14 okt 10.54 /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php

This file contains MySQL passwords and should therefore not be world-readable.

I notice that README.Debian suggests changing this, but the file
should not be created world-readable in the first place.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-openvz-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mediawiki depends on:
ii  apache2            2.2.9-10+lenny4       Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii  apache2-mpm-prefor 2.2.14-1              Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.27                Debian configuration management sy
ii  mime-support       3.44-1                MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  php5               5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii  php5-mysql         5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3 MySQL module for php5

Versions of packages mediawiki recommends:
pn  mysql-server | pos <none>                (no description available)
ii  php5-cli           5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3 command-line interpreter for the p

Versions of packages mediawiki suggests:
pn  clamav          <none>                   (no description available)
ii  imagemagick     7:6.3.7.9.dfsg2-1~lenny3 image manipulation programs
pn  mediawiki-math  <none>                   (no description available)
pn  memcached       <none>                   (no description available)
ii  php5-gd         5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny3    GD module for php5

-- debconf information:
* mediawiki/webserver: apache2





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