oss-security - Re: CVE request -- ucd-snmp / net-snmp, libnss-ldapd / nss

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:27:07 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- ucd-snmp / net-snmp, libnss-ldapd / nss_ldap

Hi,
* Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> [2009-03-23 14:26]:
>   could you please assign CVE ids for following
> two low security issues:
> 
> 1, ucd-snmp / net-snmp snmpd runs with privileges of privileged user
>    a, Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Fedora snmpd runs with UID=0, GID=0
>    b, Debian snmpd runs with GID=0
>    References:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491621
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520724

I fail to see the vulnerability in this case. While it's 
obvious that net-snmp shouldn't run with uid 0 if it doesn't 
need it, this is no security issue per-se and would not 
require a CVE id from my opinion.

Cheers
Nico
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