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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:48:34 -0400
From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@...thhorseman.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-0475: glibc directory traversal in LC_*
locale handling
On 07/10/2014 03:41 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> The default sshd_config found in openssh-6.6p1.tar.gz does not list
> AcceptEnv, so presumably by default OpenSSH portable does not accept any
> environment variables.
>
> However, apparently some distros override this safe default:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077843#c6
>
> | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-03-21 02:31:29 EDT
> |
> | The sshd_config file by default contain the following AcceptEnv directives.
> |
> | AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
> | AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
> | AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL LANGUAGE
> | AcceptEnv XMODIFIERS
Debian also ships a default sshd_config with:
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
To be clear: the override is in the default config files, there are no
changes to the sshd binary itself, which still defaults to nothing in
AcceptEnv.
--dkg
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