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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:43:20 +0200
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - dhcp clients


Ah ok, so the delivered scripts actually do this. Thanks
for the pointer.

Sebastian

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:26:13AM +0200, Tomas Hoger wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:57:39 +0200 Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> 
> > Can you point us to the exact version and location in code where
> > the vulnerability is?
> 
> I've not previously looked at the code more closely to find the exact
> spot to be fixed.  However, I have successfully reproduced the issue
> with busybox 1.15.1 at least, not sure if I looked at any older
> version too.  It should be trivial to reproduce by running udhcpc -s
> <script>, where script just dumps whole env.  You should see
> server-provided options exported (hostname, domain).
> 
> > I remember to have checked udhcpc at that time and neither I found it
> > setting a hostname or parsing the options for a hostname.
> 
> Looks like fill_envp is the place:
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c#n341
> 
> The logic was little different in older versions:
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/udhcp/dhcpc.c?id=9ac5596a#n336
> 
> When I talked to upstream, they did see the issue and opened the bug:
> https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3979
> 
> -- 
> Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team

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