Re: Snort configuration files from etc/ have strange permissions

[Alexander Bayandin via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>]

Hey Joel,

That's great, thanks a lot!

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:15 PM Joel Esler (jesler) <jesler () cisco com>
wrote:

> Hey Alexander,
>
> Noticed that I never wrote you back.  I’ve forwarded this on to our
> development team.  This is an artifact of moving from one source code
> management system to another and they will correct the issue.  Thanks for
> pointing it out!
>
> Sent from my  iPad
>
> On Apr 16, 2020, at 09:47, Alexander Bayandin via Snort-devel <
> snort-devel () lists snort org> wrote:
>
> 
> Hello,
>
> While working on updating snort to 2.9.16
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/53158> on Homebrew I've
> noticed that files in etc/ have strange permissions (I've downloaded source
> from https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.16.tar.gz):
>
> $ ls -al snort-2.9.16/etc
> total 568
> drwxrwxr-x@ 12 bayandin  staff     384 Apr  8 13:32 .
> drwxrwxr-x@ 32 bayandin  staff    1024 Apr  8 13:32 ..
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff     190 Apr  8 12:45 Makefile.am
> -rw-rw-r--@  1 bayandin  staff   12633 Apr  8 13:30 Makefile.in
> -r-xr-xr-x@  1 bayandin  staff    1281 Apr  8 12:45 attribute_table.dtd
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff    3757 Apr  8 12:45 classification.config
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   23654 Apr  8 12:45 file_magic.conf
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   32789 Apr  8 12:45 gen-msg.map
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff     687 Apr  8 12:45 reference.config
> -rw-rw-r--@  1 bayandin  staff   26798 Apr  8 13:32 snort.conf
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff    2335 Apr  8 12:45 threshold.conf
> -r--r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff  160606 Apr  8 12:45 unicode.map
>
> And as a reference — previous version available on Homebrew (2.9.12):
>
> $ ls -al snort-2.9.12/etc
> total 560
> drwxr-xr-x@ 12 bayandin  staff     384 Sep 25  2018 .
> drwxr-xr-x@ 31 bayandin  staff     992 Sep 25  2018 ..
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff     190 Nov 18  2015 Makefile.am
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   12546 Sep 25  2018 Makefile.in
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff    1281 Aug 20  2007 attribute_table.dtd
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff    3793 Sep 25  2018 classification.config
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   23058 Jun 10  2014 file_magic.conf
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   32721 Jun 13  2018 gen-msg.map
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff     687 Sep 25  2018 reference.config
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff   26803 Sep 25  2018 snort.conf
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff    2556 Sep 25  2018 threshold.conf
> -rw-r--r--@  1 bayandin  staff  160606 Jul 13  2011 unicode.map
>
>
> These unexpected permissions prevented snort to be updated on Homebrew
> several times: 2.9.13
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/38910>, 2.9.14.1
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/43296>, 2.9.15
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/45973> and 2.9.15.1
> <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/50218> and potentially
> caused some problems for other users/systems.
>
> Could anyone have a look at it, please?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Alexander Bayandin
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