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Re: Security problem with slapd/slurpd?



Hi Massimiliano, Matt, 

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:15:31AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > When slapd (LDAP server daemon) is configured to replicate itself to
> > another server, on each addition/modification to the directory it will
> > store the changes to be replicated in /var/lib/ldap/replog.  This
> > directory is world readable and entries like userPassword will be visible
> > (although on sensible setups they will already be hashed to MD5 or SHA).
> > slurpd will then pick the changes up, push them to the slave directory,
> > and store them in /var/spool/slurpd/replica/slurpd.replog, which is a
> > complete log of changes applied by slurpd and is world readable as well.
> > 
> > Am I missing something or should a bug be filed?
> 
> It sounds like a bug, but if you are unsure you should contact the
> maintainer of the slapd package (CC'd), who is more capable of answering
> authoritatively than the debian-security mailing list.

This is in fact a fault in the Debian packaging. The upstream creates the
directories with proper permissions. I'll try to do an upload to fix that
today. Problem is - what do we do about stable? Shall I prepare an upload
for that or is the security team taking care of it?

Greetings

	Torsten

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