Package: ftpd-ssl
Version: 0.17.18+0.3-5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

RC abuse of /etc/ssl/certs, rendering certificate validation
inoperable.

There are two problems with this packages use of /etc/ssl/certs:

    * Files in /etc/ssl/certs must be a+r
      - GNUTLS reads files in /etc/ssl/certs, and will not verify a
        remote certificate once it encounters an unreadable file in
        /etc/ssl/certs.

      - OPENSSL also must read files in /etc/ssl/certs, but seems to
        be more forgiving of errors incurred in the process.

    * This packages combines the key and cert into one file - which
      of course means it can't be world readable... and there for should
      not be in /etc/ssl/certs.  At least the key file should be in some
      package private /etc/ directory - with the appropriate
          permissions.

      You can still use a combined file, but it just needs to be
          elsewhere.

I noticed this when I couldn't connect to my corporate LDAP servers
using ldaps://,  but the breakage is going to be further spread (likely any
GNUTLS client app needing to lookup certificate chains)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 
'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages ftpd-ssl depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-9    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8b-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  netbase                       4.25       Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  openssl                       0.9.8b-2   Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a

ftpd-ssl recommends no packages.


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