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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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