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Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:24:33 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Timo Warns <Warns@...-Sense.DE>
Subject: Re: Remote file inclusion by office applications
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On 12/13/2012 11:53 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 11:44 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> I'm kind of leaning towards classifying this as a security issue
>> since I expected there is some way to disable it or at least tell
>> it to prompt me when a document tries to go get an external data
>> source (e.g. "this document contains external data, the URLs/file
>> paths it is trying to reference are: [list of locations]") but
>> apparently there is no way to disable/have this prompt (at least
>> that I can find in LibreOffice)?
>
> I think your assessment is correct. I've just now made an ODT file
> that libreoffice uses to not only hit the network for a PNG (denial
> of service attacks, remote exploitation of other flaws in libpng or
> in LO itself, virus scanner bypass, etc), but one that will include
> and render ~/.ssh/id_rsa as a text/plain document. This seems like
> it could be done against any local privileged file.
>
> For local file inclusion, libreoffice at leasts prompts me with:
>
> ----------- This document contains one or more links to external
> data.
>
> Would you like to change the document, and update all links to get
> the most recent data?
>
> [Yes] [No] -----------
>
> but it doesn't tell me what those documents are. And given the UI
> history of people clicking through popups they don't understand,
> i'm not convinced that this popup is going to do anything to
> prevent remote disclosure (it even defaults to "Yes"). When i say
> "no" on the prompt, it goes out and fetches networked URLs anyway,
> so i assume this prompt is supposed to just refer to local
> "external data".
>
> --dkg
>
Ok so for LibreOffice and OpenOffice please use CVE-2012-5639 for this
issue (automatic opening of remote content/poor UI so you have no idea
what it is your opening).
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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