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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:37:45 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
CC: chet.ramey@...e.edu, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash
On 9/24/14, 10:47 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 03:12:08PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> There are several options for making shell functions inherited via the
>> environment more robust, none of them backwards compatible. I will
>> choose one and implement it for a future bash version.
>
> While we're at it, I think it's preferable not to output error messages
> triggerable by untrusted input, e.g.:
>
> $ ssh -o 'rsaauthentication yes' 0 '() { ignored; }; /usr/bin/id'
> bash: warning: SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND: ignoring function definition attempt
> bash: error importing function definition for `SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND'
>
> (as seen with the current bash patches). This might be unnecessarily
> revealing or/and it might confuse whatever other program was invoking
> something via bash, resulting in attacker-triggerable unintended
> behavior in that caller program. Yes, there are numerous other error
> conditions anyway - such as running out of memory - which may result in
> messages printed to stderr. Yet we might want to avoid printing error
> messages for environment variable value parsing errors (ideally, we'd
> avoid the parsing itself as well), unless a debugging or a verbose mode
> is enabled locally (in a way that can't realistically be triggered via
> an unsuspecting network service).
I disagree. It's important for a program -- not just the shell -- to tell
the user when it attempts to do something on his behalf and is unable to
do it.
Chet
--
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@...e.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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