[Secure-testing-team] Bug#638955: proftpd-basic: World-readable config files containing password

Kim Rostgaard Christensen krc at retrospekt.dk
Tue Aug 23 10:11:37 UTC 2011


Package: proftpd-basic
Version: 1.3.3a-6squeeze1
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole


/etc/proftpd/ldap.conf contains passwords and should therefore not be world readable per default.

I think the same applies to other vuser backends

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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