oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- Sahana

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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:35:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Sahana

Please use CVE-2009-3625 for this.

-- 
    JB


----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hello Steve, vendors,
> 
>    Greg Miernicki reported a security issue in Sahana disaster
> management
> system:
> 
> Sending a specially-crafted URL (with null character included
> in the string) to Sahana, would allow an attacker to access any
> file on the web server.
> 
> More from Greg:
> 
> "The first issue would allow an attacker to touch/modify any file on
> the system.
>   Essentially the issue is that get, post, and requests aren't
> sanitized or
>   unescaped."
> 
> References:
> -----------
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530255
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=5d9043b70910191044l4bb0178fs563a5128a0f5db01%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=sahana-maindev
> 
> Upstream patch:
> ---------------
> http://sahana.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sahana/sahana-phase2/www/index.php?r1=1.83&r2=1.84
> 
> PoC:
> ----
> http://sahana/index.php?stream=text&mod=/../../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd%00
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE identifier?
> 
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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