Source: dyfi
Version: 1.2.0-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

The configuration file created by postinst is world readable. Anyone can thus 
read the 
configured username and password for the dyfi service.


$ ls -la /etc/dyfi-update.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 dyfi dyfi 381 Jun 16 09:11 /etc/dyfi-update.conf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (510, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dyfi depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  init-system-helpers    1.34
ii  libwww-perl            6.08-1
ii  perl                   5.20.2-3+deb8u5

dyfi recommends no packages.

dyfi suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded
Description: Fix configuraion file permissions (passwords should probably not be world readable...)

--- a/debian/postinst
+++ b/debian/postinst
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     fi
     touch /var/log/dyfi-update.log
     chown -R dyfi:dyfi /usr/share/dyfi /var/log/dyfi-update.log /etc/dyfi-update.conf
+    chmod o-r /etc/dyfi-update.conf
   ;;
 esac
 #DEBHELPER#

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