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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:33:51 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Subject: Re: CVE# request: pigz creates temp file with insecure
permissions
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On 02/15/2013 01:33 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> I think this one well deserves a CVE#. I just submitted the
> following bug #700608 to Debian BTS:
>
> When asked to compress a file with restricted permissions (like
> mode 0600), the .gz file pigz creates while doing this has usual
> mode derived from umask (like 0644). If the file is large enough
> (and why we would use pigz instead of gzip for small files), this
> results in the original content being readable for everyone until
> the compression finishes.
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> $ fallocate -l 1G foo $ chmod 0600 foo $ pigz foo & $ ls -l foo
> foo.gz -rw------- 1 mjt mjt 1073741824 Feb 15 12:27 foo -rw-rw-r--
> 1 mjt mjt 502516 Feb 15 12:27 foo.gz
>
> When it finishes, it correctly applies original file permissions to
> the newly created file, but it is already waaay too late.
>
> Other one-file archivers (gzip, xz, bzip2, ...) usually create the
> temp file with very strict permissions first, and change it to the
> right perms only when done, so only the current user can read it.
Apologies for my first misreading of this. Please use CVE-2013-0296
for this issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
> /mjt
>
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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