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Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-2805 Moderate: Ntop Access Log Issue

Fixed log world-writable when the --access-log-file option is used.. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-2805 2009-03-18 18:32:58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Name : ntop Product : Fedora 10 Version : 3.3.8 Release : 3.fc10 URL : https://www.ntop.org/ Summary : A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command Description : ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform and on Win32 as well. ntop users can use a a web browser (e.g. netscape) to navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. In the latter case, ntop can be seen as a simple RMON-like agent with an embedded web interface. The use of: * a web interface * limited configuration and administration via the web interface * reduced CPU and memory usage (they vary according to network size and traffic) make ntop easy to use and suitable for monitoring various kind of networks. ntop should be manually started the first time so that the administrator password can be selected. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Update Information: ls -lh /var/log/ntop/access.log -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2009-02-04 11:53 /var/log/ntop/access.log Fixed. log world-writable when the --access-log-file option is used. This option is not used in Fedora or Red Hat by default and is not noted in the configuration file. It is, however, noted in the ntop manpage. It would require the root user to add this option to the configuration in order for this file to be created. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------ChangeLog: *Tue Mar 17 2009 Rakesh Pandit - 3.3.8-3 - Fixed world writable accesslog (#490561) - security bug * Tue Mar 3 2009 Peter Vrabec - 3.3.8-2 - invalid certificate fix (#486725) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------References: [ 1 ] Bug #490561 - ntop: access.log created world-writable https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490561 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ntop' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at . All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at --------------------------------------------------------------------------------_______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./ . Fixed world-writable access log issue for ntop in Fedora 10 update FEDORA-2009-2805, ensuring user data security.. world-writable, --access-log-file, option, --------------------------------. . Severity: Important. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar 2 Apr 13, 2009 Important Fedora
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Debian: Serious Access Control Vulnerability in Ntop Exposure Risk

Using ntop to distribute network traffic through the network, it is possible to access arbitrary files on the local filesystem. Since ntop runs as root uid, guess what that means, even /etc/shadow got unsecured.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Martin Schulze August 7, 2000 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: ntop Vulnerability: remote file exploit Debian-specific: no Vulnerable: yes Using ntop to distribute network traffic through the network, i.e. running ntop as webserver, it is possible to access arbitrary files on the local filesystem. Since ntop runs as root uid, guess what that means, even /etc/shadow got unsecured. Since ntop comes with its own simple web server this problem is not a result of another webserver insecurity. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink - -------------------------------- The "ntop" package is not a part of Debian 2.1. No fix is necessary. Debian 2.2 alias potato - ----------------------- This version of Debian is not yet released. Fixes are currently available for Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32, Motorola 680x0, PowerPC and the Sun Sparc architecture. Source archives: MD5 checksum: 8d39ab8c1d330ade898bf0ebf78b829f MD5 checksum: 5259e2f5b4a191836dca47c3d354f4f0 MD5 checksum: 9031a2001935b7a4882f8427f0edea15 Alpha architecture: MD5 checksum: 517dbc9a62c246931dcd48e213bfbe3f ARM architecture: MD5 checksum: bf0e6a3d630bb71b24f26457be93d362 Intel ia32 architecture: MD5 checksum: 1da340aa9ef9131e17edb3f656c167e0 Motorola 680x0 architecture: MD5 checksum: fcb78534a1dbaf29994e4a9e49909d96 PowerPC architecture: MD5 checksum: b2322adefed307c07b243aeab0d3a41a Sun Sparcarchitecture: MD5 checksum: 0b5b46223a907dfd931d59d8025e73e9 Debian Unstable alias woody - --------------------------- This version of Debian is not yet released and reflects the current development release. Fixes are the same as for potato. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb Debian -- Security Information stable updates For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates Mailing list: debian-security- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see The GNU Privacy Guard iD8DBQE5jyi+W5ql+IAeqTIRAiFGAJ9EtloI2O+JOx9RE47TZ3bMv9meEQCcDjsk DVwsZ/8wxXl5yzPch/efuMA=mon4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- . Explore the ntop weakness enabling unauthorized file access on Debian systems; prompt fixes released.. Ntop Security, Debian Access Issue, File Exploit Details. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar 2 Aug 08, 2000 Critical Debian
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