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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:18:13 +0100
From: Ángel González <angel@...its.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: mmcallis@...hat.com, cve-assign@...re.org, 767227@...s.debian.org,
sven.schwedas@....at, axkibe@...il.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: lsyncd command injection
On 20-11-2014 Mitre wrote:
> > There is a command injection flaw in lsyncd, a file change monitoring
> > and synchronization daemon:
> >
> > https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/issues/220
> >
> > https://github.com/creshal/lsyncd/commit/18f02ad013b41a72753912155ae2ba72f2a53e52
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767227
>
> Use CVE-2014-8990. The scope of this CVE ID includes both:
>
> 1. code execution with ` characters or other characters that are
> special to a shell
> 2. denial of service scenarios in which a user with write access
> to a local directory uses special characters to make
> synchronization fail (might have security relevance in some
> scenarios)
>
> The MITRE CVE team does not have a Lua expert. The code change adds:
>
> local path1 = event.path:gsub ('"', '\\"'):gsub ('`', '\\`'):gsub ('%$','\\%$')
> local path2 = event2.path:gsub ('"', '\\"'):gsub ('`', '\\`'):gsub ('%$','\\%$')
>
> This does not seem to be the typical fix approach for unsafe input to
> a shell. Has anyone concluded that this is an incomplete fix that ought
> to be modified before the 2.1.6 release?
It is indeed an incomplete fix:
* The gsub ('%$','\\%$') works in lua5.1, but under lua5.2 the second %
character makes lsyncd fail with the error "stdin:1: invalid use of '%'
in replacement string". Thus allowing a complete denial of service
* Not all metacharacters are filtered, so command execution is still
present. In particular, the escaped characters can be prefixed with a
backslash to bypass the filter.
The attached patch should hopefully solve these issues.
View attachment "0001-Properly-sanitize-mv-parameters-CVE-2014-8990.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (1694 bytes)
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