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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:24:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: carnil@...ian.org
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, steve@...ve.org.uk, xcfa@...family.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: xcfa: Insecure use of temporary files, subject to race conditions
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> https://bugs.debian.org/756600
As mentioned in the
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/3 post, the Symlink
Following composite is treated as somewhat of a special case in CVE.
This doesn't, for example, mean that all problematic uses of files in
/tmp are always covered by a single CVE ID.
>> rm /tmp/index.html
>> any existing file called /tmp/index.html will be removed regardless
This may be an issue that is typically treated as a usability problem
(or maybe a documentation problem), not a security problem. The rm
program should remove /tmp/index.html - it should not remove the
target of a /tmp/index.html symlink. (If there is a race condition
within an implementation of rm, that would not be an xcfa
vulnerability.)
Ideally, xcfa would not remove /tmp/index.html because /tmp/index.html
might be an important file unrelated to xcfa. However, there doesn't
seem to be a way to design an "attack" in the traditional sense, and
/tmp/index.html isn't a filename that would be important in typical
cases. For example, if I have a critical file named file.txt~ and a
less important file named file.txt, and I decide to modify file.txt
with emacs, then file.txt~ is overwritten with no warning. This is
typically not considered an emacs vulnerability.
https://bugs.debian.org/756600 covers a number of Symlink Following
issues that allow overwriting files. Use CVE-2014-5254 for all of
these.
>> fp = fopen ("/tmp/get_infos_dvd.sh", "w");
>>
>> fprintf (fp, "#!/bin/sh\n");
>> fclose (fp);
>> system ("chmod +x /tmp/get_infos_dvd.sh");
>>
>> system ("/tmp/get_infos_dvd.sh");
This one doesn't seem to be necessarily a Symlink Following issue. At
the instant of the fopen, /tmp/get_infos_dvd.sh might be a plain file
(not a symlink), owned by the attacker but with 0777 permissions. The
fopen/fprintf/fclose would succeed, and the chmod would fail. The
attacker can insert malicious code into /tmp/get_infos_dvd.sh in
between the fclose line and the second system line. Use CVE-2014-5255
for this.
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