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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:21:20 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Request (minor) -- osc: Improper sanitization
 of terminal emulator escape sequences when displaying build log and build
 status

On 02/28/2012 03:44 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 06:56:52PM +0100, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> I am not fully convinced it needs a CVE.
> 
> It basically boils down to the old "logfile with content that might be controlled
> by an attacker pasted raw to a terminal" issue.

Aren't these generally covered?

CVE-2010-3928
CVE-2010-2713
CVE-2009-4487

"without sanitizing non-printable characters" and so on.

> There is some more control on the person who builds a specific package what is output
> thant there usually is in logfiles though.
> 
> A rogue server is unlikely, however a malicious packager could echo "bad escape code"
> in his build and then ask for help on our IRC channels or mailinglists with package Y on project X.
> (anyone can create an account and build packages ... and asking for help is not uncommon)
> e.g. with "look at logfile with: 'osc buildlog home:user foopackage standard i586'.)
> 
> Ciao, Marcus


-- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)

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