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Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:37:22 +0000
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: kiwi shell meta char injection


This email was sent a bit too early.

On Mi, 2011-11-02 at 10:03 +0000, Thomas Biege wrote:
> Hi,
> my colleagues found the following:
> https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/commit/f0f74b3f6ac6d47f7919aa9db380c0ad41ffe55f
> 
> CVE-2011-3180: The path of overlay files was not escaped which allowed
> shell meta character injection via the chown(1) command-line.
> 
> https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/commit/88bf491d16942766016c606e4210b4e072c1019f
> CVE-2011-4195: The image name was not escaped properly and can be used
> in conjunction with other applications to execute arbitrary shell
> commands.

In the master branch the following commits are interesting:
  14881958878d54e6ed0c5153a1915891d94d1622
  8ada4156a781e799b84ad9b0a1f4fffb2d0250e8
  88bf491d16942766016c606e4210b4e072c1019f
  a9433189740fc71b0156103c0a3c01d873b04dfd

> Cheers,
> Thomas

-- 
Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>, Project Manager IT-Security
SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB
21284 (AG Nürnberg)
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