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Debian DSA-1856-1 : mantis - information leak

high Nessus Plugin ID 44721

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the Debian Mantis package, a web-based bug tracking system, installed the database credentials in a file with world-readable permissions onto the local filesystem. This allows local users to acquire the credentials used to control the Mantis database.

This updated package corrects this problem for new installations and will carefully try to update existing ones. Administrators can check the permissions of the file /etc/mantis/config_db.php to see if they are safe for their environment.

Solution

Upgrade the mantis package.

The old stable distribution (etch) does not contain a mantis package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.6+dfsg-2lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425010

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1856

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 44721

File Name: debian_DSA-1856.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mantis, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2009

Reference Information

DSA: 1856