severity 312821 grave
tags 312821 security
thanks

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:54:35AM +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Package: webcalendar
> Version: 0.9.45-4
> Severity: critical

> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/webcalendar$ ls -l /etc/webcalendar/
> total 88
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       487 May 18 18:39 apache.conf
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       461 Nov 11  2004 print_styles.css
> -rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   378 Apr 25 11:52 settings.php
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       369 Apr 20 11:06 settings.php.old
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root       774 Dec 28 23:22 settings.php.tpl
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root      6701 Nov 16  2004 site_extras.php
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root     21879 Dec  7  2004 styles.php
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root     12133 Dec 14 01:09 user-ldap.php
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root     11417 Nov 16  2004 user-nis.php
> -rw-r--r--  1 root     root     11647 Nov 25  2004 user.php

> All configuration files are world-readable. As settings.php includes a
> clear-text password and login to the database, this it highly unsecure,
> hence the severity critical. Wish I had seen this before Sarge's
> release.

That would seem to be a user-level security hole, not a root-level security
hole, so the proper severity would be "grave".  And of course, the bug
should be tagged "security".

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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