[oe-commits] [meta-openembedded] 03/08: rsyslog: CVE-2015-3243

ChenQi Qi.Chen at windriver.com
Tue Aug 22 01:54:53 UTC 2017


Hi Martin,

Please help drop this patch. After discussing with Zhixiong, we think 
this patch is not necessary.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

On 08/21/2017 03:09 PM, git at git.openembedded.org wrote:
> This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script.
>
> martin_jansa pushed a commit to branch master-next
> in repository meta-openembedded.
>
> commit 13fef515d292ff571e5d68a8b1094e3f6d10a02a
> Author: Zhixiong Chi <zhixiong.chi at windriver.com>
> AuthorDate: Sun Aug 20 10:51:48 2017 +0800
>
>      rsyslog: CVE-2015-3243
>      
>      rsyslog uses weak permissions for generating log files, which allows
>      local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in
>      /var/log/cron.log
>      
>      We add "create 0600 root root" to the /etc/logrotate.d/syslog file,
>      this will ensure the file is created with permissions when logrotate
>      runs. It is also recommended that users manually set the permissions
>      on existing or newly installed log files in order to prevent access
>      by untrusted users.
>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1232826
>      
>      CVE: CVE-2015-3243
>      
>      Signed-off-by: Zhixiong Chi <zhixiong.chi at windriver.com>
>      Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>
> ---
>   meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.logrotate | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.logrotate b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.logrotate
> index 94ec517..7960815 100644
> --- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.logrotate
> +++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/rsyslog/rsyslog/rsyslog.logrotate
> @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
>   /var/log/user.log
>   /var/log/lpr.log
>   /var/log/cron.log
> +{
> +        create 0600 root root
> +}
>   /var/log/debug
>   /var/log/messages
>   {
>



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