USN-88-1: reportbug information disclosure

Releases

• Ubuntu 4.10

Details

Rolf Leggewie discovered two information disclosure bugs in reportbug.

The per-user configuration file ~/.reportbugrc was created
world-readable. If it contained email smarthost passwords, these were
readable by any other user on the computer storing the home directory.

reportbug usually includes the settings from ~/.reportbugrc in
generated bug reports. This included the "smtppasswd" setting (the
password for an SMTP email smarthost) as well. The password is
now hidden from reports.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 4.10

• reportbug -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/6600
• https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/6717