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Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 00:58:53 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@...ping.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: mysecureshell: local denial of service
 (or worse)

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On 07/25/2013 04:28 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello Kurt,
> 
> 
> On 25.07.2013 10:33, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>> On 07/23/2013 11:19 AM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
>>> mysecureshell [1] is an SFTP-only shell to be used with sshd.
>>
>>> The latest release 1.31 makes use of shared memory with permissions
>>> 666 to maintain 128 slots with one struct for each
>>> connection/process. An unprivileged user can mark mark all
>>> remaining slots as occupied (and optionally wait for remaining
>>> clients to leave to block those slots, too).
>>
>>> To demonstrate the issue, I have written a small command line
>>> tool. It's free software and can be found at [2].  Use it like
>>> this:
>>
>>> # make cc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic local-dos.c -o
>>> local-dos
>>
>>> # ./local-dos USAGE: ./local-dos (block|unblock|show)
>>
>>> # watch -n 1 -d ./local-dos block [..]
>>
>>> Besides the local DoS it might be possible to attack the call to
>>> chdir, since that is reading from shared memory, too.
>>
>>> Any ideas on other attacks based on writing to that block of
>>> shared memory?  File /bin/MySecureShell is mode 4755 setuid root if
>>> that makes it more interesting :-)
>>> [..]
>>> [1] http://mysecureshell.sourceforge.net/
>>> [2] https://github.com/hartwork/mysecureshell-issues
>>
>> To reiterate: so I can confirm CVE assignments, and prevent duplicate
>> assignments you *MUST* provide links to the code commits/vulnerable
>> code. I don't have the time to go hunting through your source code for
>> them. People need to start making better CVE requests, or you're not
>> going to get CVEs from me.
>>
>> I think if I repeat this enough times it'll work.
> 
> Upstream tarball
> ================
> http://mysecureshell.free.fr/repository/index.php/debian/pool/main/m/mysecureshell/mysecureshell_1.31.tar.gz
> 
> 
> Issue
> =====
> Mode 0666 for shared memory, local denial of service
> 
> 
> Guilty code
> ===========
> 
> Online
> ~~~~~~
> http://mysecureshell.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mysecureshell/mysecureshell/SftpServer/SftpWho.c?revision=1.3&view=markup#l73
> 
> Inlined  (from SftpServer/SftpWho.c, lines 73 and after)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> //try to join to existing shm
> if ((shmid = shmget(key, sizeof(t_shm), 0)) == -1)
>   if (create == 1)
>     {
>       shmid = shmget(key, sizeof(t_shm), IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL | 0666);
>       eraze = 1;
>     }
> 
> 
> Please let me know if you need anything more.  Thanks for your time!
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 

Perfect! Please use CVE-2013-4175 for this issue.

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