oss-security - CVE request -- coreutils -- tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI ioctl

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Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:23:14 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Russell Coker <rcoker@...hat.com>, Daniel Ruoso <daniel@...so.com>
Subject: CVE request -- coreutils -- tty hijacking possible in "su" via TIOCSTI
 ioctl

Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,

   based on Debian BTS report:
   [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628843
       (first CVE-2011-XXYY required for Debian case)

looked more into original report:
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173008

and the first paragraph of [2] suggests:
"When starting a program via "su - user -c program" the user session
can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push
characters into the input buffer.  This allows for example a non-root
session to push "chmod 666 /etc/shadow" or similarly bad commands into
the input buffer such  that after the end of the session they are
executed."

this should get a CVE-2005-YYZZ CVE id.

Could you allocate these?

Thank you & Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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