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Message-ID: <51272F4E.1010507@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:41:50 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: gremlin@...mlin.ru
Subject: Re: nginx world-readable logdir

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On 02/22/2013 01:15 AM, gremlin@...mlin.ru wrote:
> On 22-Feb-2013 00:29:48 -0700, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> 
>>>> I just noticed my nginx logdir and its content are 
>>>> world-readable: What do you think about?
>>> About misconfiguration? Nothing: % grep create
>>> /etc/logrotate.d/nginx create 640 root wheel
>> What are the initial permissions prior to log rotation?
> 
> Of course, exactly the same - 640, root:wheel :-)
> 
> I've built my own package (for Openwall GNU/*/Linux, not yet in
> mainstream), and there I use explicit log file creation in the
> %post section (touch && chown && chmod) without relying on a umask
> (although in Owl it's restrictive by default: 077).
> 
> So I think that ${subject} is just a misconfiguration.
> 
> 

Welp I confirmed it on Fedora 16. So at least some things are affected.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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