Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1758-1 nss-ldapd -- insecure config file creation
- Date Reported:
- 30 Mar 2009
- Affected Packages:
- nss-ldapd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 520476.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-1073. - More information:
-
Leigh James discovered that nss-ldapd, an NSS module for using LDAP as a naming service, by default creates the configuration file /etc/nss-ldapd.conf world-readable which could leak the configured LDAP password if one is used for connecting to the LDAP server.
The old stable distribution (etch) doesn't contain nss-ldapd.
For the stable distribution (lenny) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.7.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.8.
We recommend that you upgrade your nss-ldapd package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/nss-ldapd_0.6.7.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/nss-ldapd_0.6.7.1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/nss-ldapd_0.6.7.1.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nss-ldapd/libnss-ldapd_0.6.7.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.