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Fedora 9 FEDORA-2009-3789 Moderate: Prewikka Permissions Issue

fedora
Calendar Grey April 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Modification optimizes prewikka configurations to strengthen security by adjusting file attributes for heightened safeguarding.
The permissions on the prewikka.conf file are world readable and contain the sql database password used by prewikka

Summary

Prewikka is a graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude

Hybrid IDS Framework. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates

the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and sensor

and hearbeat views, and has user management and configurable filters. It

has access to external tools such as whois and traceroute.

Please read README.fedora for installation instructions.

Update Information:

The permissions on the prewikka.conf file are world readable and contain the sql database password used by prewikka. This update makes it readable just by the apache group.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora configuration database security prewikka permissions change

Change Log

* Fri Apr 17 2009 Steve Grubb 0.9.14-2 - Change default perms on conf file * Thu Apr 24 2008 Steve Grubb 0.9.14-1 - new upstream release

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-3789 2009-04-21 23:55:14
Name : prewikka Product : Fedora 9 Version : 0.9.14 Release : 2.fc9 URL : https://prelude-ids.org/ Summary : Graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework Description : Prewikka is a graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and sensor and hearbeat views, and has user management and configurable filters. It has access to external tools such as whois and traceroute.
Please read README.fedora for installation instructions.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update prewikka' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: prewikka
Product: Fedora 9
Version: 0.9.14
Release: 2.fc9
URL: https://prelude-ids.org/
Summary: Graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate fedora configuration database security prewikka permissions change

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