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

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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:08:51 +0100
From: yersinia <yersinia.spiros@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- ucd-snmp / net-snmp, libnss-ldapd / 
	nss_ldap

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de> wrote:
> 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.

What is more net-snmp have a specific MAC selinux policy in targeted
mode in Fedora/RHEL. So the full uid=0 is not so important if Selinux
is in enforcing mode.

Regards

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