[Secure-testing-team] Bug#653959: citadel-server was auto-selected and installed by dist-upgrade for what appears to be no good reason, and apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out all system changes

Joshua joshudson at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 22:42:07 UTC 2012


Source: citadel-server
Version: wheezy
Severity: serious
Tags: security
Justification: Policy 3.5

apt-get dist-upgrade decided to install citadel-server (no I didn't know what it was) for who-knows-what reason.
Install created a new publicly listening service (never a good thing security-wise)
Install created a new user & group
an immediate apt-get purge citadel-server failed to back out the user,group,extra directories in /var

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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