Ubuntu 4.10 : reportbug information disclosure (USN-88-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 20713

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Rolf Leggewie discovered two information disclosure bugs in reportbug.

The per-user configuration file ~/.reportbugrc was created world-readable. If it contained email smarthost passwords, these were readable by any other user on the computer storing the home directory.

reportbug usually includes the settings from ~/.reportbugrc in generated bug reports. This included the 'smtppasswd' setting (the password for an SMTP email smarthost) as well. The password is now hidden from reports.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected reportbug package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 20713

File Name: ubuntu_USN-88-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/15/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:reportbug, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2005

Reference Information

USN: 88-1