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Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:13:10 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: colord sql injections

Hi Ludwig,

   thank you for the report.

On 11/25/2011 11:55 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> colord did not quote user supplied strings which made it prone to
> SQL injections:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42904
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698250

Just to have this one sorted out wrt to the patches, the relevant
upstream patches are these two:
[1] 
http://gitorious.org/colord/master/commit/1fadd90afcb4bbc47513466ee9bb1e4a8632ac3b
[2] 
http://gitorious.org/colord/master/commit/36549e0ed255e7dfa7852d08a75dd5f00cbd270e

right?

Thank you && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

>
> When colord runs as root and local active users are allowed to
> create new devices (both are the defaults AFAIK) this allows not
> only to corrupt colord's own database but also to leverage it to
> modify other databases in the system (PackageKit for example also
> uses sqlite).
>
> PoC available on request.
>
> cu
> Ludwig
>

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