COMMAND
SIMS and SDS
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
SunOS with SIMS 3.x and SDS 1.x & 3.1
PROBLEM
Dana Jones found following about SIMS 3.x (Sun Internet Mail
Server) and SDS 1.x & 3.1 (Sun LDAP Directory services)
vulnerability. /var/opt/SUNWconn/ldap/log/slapd.log is used to
log ldap connects/operations. We won't waste a lot of typing on
detailing the problem, perhaps this simple example will suffice:
% cd /var/opt/SUNWconn/ldap/log/
% ls -l slapd.log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 33519 Dec 16 16:00 slapd.log
% grep password slapd.log
Wed Dec 16 12:55 : conn=41 op=2 SRCH base="CN=Joe T. User
(joet),OU=People,O=email,C=US" scope=2 filter="(userpassword=bettysue)"
% grep passwd | grep admin
Wed Dec 16 12:55 : conn=41 op=2 SRCH base="CN=admin
(admin),OU=People,O=email,C=US" scope=2 filter="(userpassword=secret)"
Yes folks, world readable (and writable for that matter) and
clear text passwords and uids of all those folks logging into the
IMAP server to check mail, etc. and on a machine that users can
log into.
SOLUTION
Change permissions.