[Full-Disclosure] [USN-88-1] reportbug information disclosure

From: Martin Pitt (martin.pitt_at_canonical.com)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:52:36 +0100
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    Ubuntu Security Notice USN-88-1 February 28, 2005
    reportbug information disclosure
    https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/6600
    https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/6717
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    A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

    Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)

    The following packages are affected:

    reportbug

    The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
    version 2.62ubuntu1.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is
    sufficient to effect the necessary changes. However, if your users
    already have ~/.reportbugrc files with SMTP passwords, you need to
    manually change their permissions with

      chmod 600 .reportbugrc

    Details follow:

    Rolf Leggewie discovered two information disclosure bugs in reportbug.

    The per-user configuration file ~/.reportbugrc was created
    world-readable. If it contained email smarthost passwords, these were
    readable by any other user on the computer storing the home directory.

    reportbug usually includes the settings from ~/.reportbugrc in
    generated bug reports. This included the "smtppasswd" setting (the
    password for an SMTP email smarthost) as well. The password is
    now hidden from reports.

      Source archives:

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/reportbug/reportbug_2.62ubuntu1.1.dsc
          Size/MD5: 540 19dab43ca7c942311e87ad5e48e32a39
        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/reportbug/reportbug_2.62ubuntu1.1.tar.gz
          Size/MD5: 115256 9b3fbec6a6974274068afb08835f0fdc

      Architecture independent packages:

        http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/r/reportbug/reportbug_2.62ubuntu1.1_all.deb
          Size/MD5: 104630 f051c98020dffd1e8ae3253ab72e88ce

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