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Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 17:41:03 +0200
From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@...hat.com>
To: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE-2022-1348 logrotate: potential DoS from unprivileged users via the state file

On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 4:07:34 PM CEST Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On 2022-05-25 09:37, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 25, 2022 3:19:31 PM CEST Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> >> On 2022-05-18 09:54, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> >>> The current version of the patch to fix CVE-2022-1348 in logrotate is
> >>> attached.  We are going to apply the patch upstream on May 25th, when
> >>> the embargo is lifted.
> >> 
> >> FWIW, I don't think the patch actually works when logrotate is built with
> >> ACL support...
> >> 
> >> Marc.
> > 
> > You are right.  Although the patch mitigates the security issue, it is not
> > 
> > perfect.  I had already opened an upstream pull request to improve it:
> >     https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/pull/446
> > 
> > I might create a bug fix release soon with the patch included.
> > 
> > Sorry for the troubles!
> > 
> > Kamil
> 
> Oh! I had not seen that pull request. Thanks, that should solve the issue!
> 
> Marc.

Thanks for confirmation!  I have merged the pull request and released 3.20.1:

    https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/releases/tag/3.20.1

The following two commits should be cherry-picked for older releases
of logrotate (from 3.17.0 to 3.19.0):

    https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/commit/1f76a381e2caa0603ae3dbc51ed0f1aa0d6658b9
    https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/commit/addbd293242b0b78aa54f054e6c1d249451f137d

Kamil


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