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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]