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Message-ID: <20130610112630.GB9807@gremlin.ru>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:26:30 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Debian's package "mysql-server" leaks credential information
On 08-Jun-2013 13:28:28 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> That's not a security issue, but a misconfiguration
> I consider this a security bug in the debian package's maintainer
> scripts: it is a race condition that leaks confidential information
Package post-install scripts are closer to configuration.
>> (alas, very common for Deb*an packages)
> If you know of more bugs like this, please report them with an
> e-mail to submit@...s.debian.org with the first line "Package:
> FOO" (where "FOO" is replaced by the name of the buggy package).
> Thanks!
I know lots (even for MySQL, which we are discussing, I can recall
at least mysqldump producing trash, or several replication issues),
but I don't want to waste my time.
P.S.: http://pics.rsh.ru/img/debipoke_demo_itnrnj4r.png :-)
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