179319 – /etc/profile umask defaults to 022, even on hardened

Bug 179319 - /etc/profile umask defaults to 022, even on hardened

Summary: /etc/profile umask defaults to 022, even on hardened

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69783

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Default Configs (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

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Reported:	2007-05-21 14:10 UTC by Michael Croes
Modified:	2007-05-21 17:53 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michael Croes 2007-05-21 14:10:14 UTC

The umask 022 settings will by default create files and folders that are read to all users on the system. I don't see any reason why this would even be default on non-hardened systems (well except for maybe apache, which with the correct mpm can be forked to the user), but especially on hardened systems this seems like a security issue to me. If there is no obvious reason to not set the umask to 077 by default, I hope this will at least change in hardened...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-21 17:53:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 69783 ***