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Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:45:30 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Larry W. Cashdollar" <larry0@...com>
Subject: Re: Remote command injection md2pdf ruby gem

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On 04/12/2013 08:09 PM, Larry W. Cashdollar wrote:
> 
> Remote command injection md2pdf ruby gem
> 
> /4/10/2013/ 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  Description: "creates pdf documents from markdown documents"
> 
> https://rubygems.org/gems/md2pdf
> 
> In md2pdf/converter.rb we see user supplied input being passed to
> the command line with out proper sanitization.
> 
> 12       shell.exec("pandoc#{options} #{input_filename} -o
> #{output_filename}")
> 
> 23 shell.exec("pdftk #{temp_filename} multibackground
> #{background_path} outpu t #{output_filename}")
> 
> Where exec is defined as the following:
> 
> 37     def exec(command_line) 38       require 'open3' 39
> stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3(command_line) 40       return
> stdout.read 41     end
> 
> 
> Notes
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'open3' => true irb(main):002:0> stdin,
> stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('pdfcnv filename;id;uname -a;.pdft') 
> => [#, #, #] irb(main):003:0> puts stdout.read uid=1000(larry)
> gid=1000(larry)
> groups=1000(larry),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),117(sambashare)
>
> 
Linux underfl0w 3.2.0-39-virtual #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 27 22:45:45 UTC
2013 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> => nil
> 
> http://vapid.dhs.org/advisories/md2pdf-remote-exec.html
> 
> This vulnerability doesn't have a CVE yet assigned.
> 
> Larry W. Cashdollar @_larry0

Please use CVE-2013-1948 for this issue.



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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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