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Message-ID: <52859617.6040608@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:33:43 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@...ntu.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: grub-mkconfig
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On 11/14/2013 05:04 PM, Seth Arnold wrote:
> Hello Kurt, all,
>
> Please assign a CVE for grub-mkconfig.
>
> grub-mkconfig on Debian and derivatives sets mode 444 on grub.cfg
> configuration files if there are no plaintext passwords in the
> configuration file. However, the permissions are still set world
> readable if the password_pbkdf2 directive includes a hashed
> password.
>
> The original bug report and proposed patch is by Francesco Poli:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=632598
>
> Original compressed patch:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=safer_grub_cfg_perms.diff.gz;att=1;bug=632598
>
> Patch, uncompressed and inlined:
>
> diff -ruN a/grub-mkconfig b/grub-mkconfig --- a/grub-mkconfig
> 2011-05-31 11:33:31.000000000 +0200 +++ b/grub-mkconfig 2011-07-03
> 21:15:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ esac done
>
> -if [ "x${grub_cfg}" != "x" ] && ! grep -q "^password "
> ${grub_cfg}.new ; then +if [ "x${grub_cfg}" != "x" ] && ! grep -q
> "^password" ${grub_cfg}.new ; then chmod 444 ${grub_cfg}.new ||
> true fi
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
Please use CVE-2013-4577 for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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