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Secunia Advisory SA19331

Debian Network Installation Insecure Default Directory Permissions
Secunia Advisory SA19331
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Release Date 2006-03-23
Last Update 2006-03-27
   
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Criticality level Not criticalNot critical
Impact Security Bypass
DoS
Where Local system
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Solution Status Unpatched
   
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Operating System
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2006-1376 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Ferenczi Viktor has discovered a weakness in Debian, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to the "/var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf" directory being left behind with world-writable permissions after completion of installation using the network install CD. This can potentially be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS by e.g. filling up the /var/log partition.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso and also reported in version 3.1r1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Configure appropriate permissions for the "/var/log/debian-installer/cdebconf" directory.

Provided and/or discovered by
Ferenczi Viktor

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358210

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