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TITLE:
FreeBSD freebsd-update Insecure Directory Permissions

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37575

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37575/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in FreeBSD, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive
information.

The security issue is caused due to the freebsd-update utility not
properly restricting read access to it's working directory
(/var/db/freebsd-update by default), which can be exploited to e.g.
access a backup of the master password file.

SOLUTION:
Update FreeBSD or apply patch.

2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_8, 8.0-STABLE)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_8_0, 8.0-RELEASE-p1)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-STABLE)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7.2-RELEASE-p5)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RELEASE-p9)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.4-STABLE)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6_4, 6.4-RELEASE-p8)
2009-12-03 09:18:40 UTC (RELENG_6_3, 6.3-RELEASE-p14)

Patch:
http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-09:17/freebsd-update.patch.asc

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
KAMADA Ken'ichi

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:17.freebsd-update.asc

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