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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:35:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: oping allows the disclosure of
arbitrary file contents
----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org> wrote:
>
> This says:
>
> 2009-09-29 Version 1.3.3 is available. The new release fixes a serious
> security issue in oping: If the application is installed with the
> SetUID-bit, anybody on the system could use oping to read arbitrary files
> using the "-f" option.
>
> So as stated, this sounds worthy of a CVE to me. Thoughts?
>
That issue has a CVE id. I gave it CVE-2009-3614 quite some time ago.
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125561742729846&w=2
The discussion then branched out into if an unchecked call to setuid to drop
permissions is a security flaw (as a user could cause it to fail, preventing
oping from dropping privs). I saw nothing in the code that showed it to be
anything but a bug, as oping doesn't do anything exciting after the call could
fail.
--
JB
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