Package: gosa
Version: 2.5.6-2
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: root security hole
The documentation in gosa tells the admin to install gosa.conf under
/etc/gosa/gosa.conf, and to make it readable by the group www-data.
In this configuration file, the ldap admin password is stored in
cleartext. Any process running under the web process can now read that
file, and if the same ldap users was used for authenticating , it would
be rather easy to create a user with root access.
this litle script placed under my ~/public_html/ revealed the password
on my server
<?php system ('cat /etc/gosa/gosa.conf') ; ?>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages gosa depends on:
ii apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.3-3.1 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD
ii fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6-14 sends ICMP ECHO_REQUEST packets to
ii libcrypt-smbhash-perl 0.12-1 generate LM/NT hash of a password
ii php5 5.2.0-7 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php5-gd 5.2.0-7 GD module for php5
ii php5-imagick 0.9.11+1-4.1 ImageMagick module for php5
ii php5-imap 5.2.0-7 IMAP module for php5
ii php5-ldap 5.2.0-7 LDAP module for php5
ii php5-mhash 5.2.0-7 MHASH module for php5
ii php5-mysql 5.2.0-7 MySQL module for php5
ii php5-recode 5.2.0-7 recode module for php5
ii postfix [mail-transport 2.3.4-2 A high-performance mail transport
ii smarty 2.6.14-1 Template engine for PHP
ii smarty-gettext 1.0b1-2 provides gettext support for smart
ii wwwconfig-common 0.0.48 Debian web auto configuration
gosa recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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