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Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 23:34:51 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: Andres Gomez <agomez@...idsignal.com>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
vuln@...unia.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Planeshift buffer overflow
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On 05/17/2012 09:53 PM, Andres Gomez wrote:
> Hi kurt,
>
> The fact that only local user can modify program files doesn't
> mean there is no security risk, there are a lot of examples but
> look at this:
>
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4620
That's a very different scenario than this one as I understand it.
TORCS actually has a realistic requirement for using TORCS files
supplied by the user (that are downloaded from remote sites/etc.).
> this is very similar, only local user can modify software files,
> but as defined by Mitre this bug "allows user-assisted remote
> attackers to execute arbitrary code", because an attacker can
> deceive a user to download and use a specially crafted file. I
> accept the fact that "chatbubbles.xml" being a configuration file
> makes it harder to be replaced, but still there is a risk.
In the case of Planeshift the chatbubbles.xml is not supplied by the
user, it comes with the program and is installed into a system
directory. This is very different from the TORCS situation. If you can
convince a user to start replacing system config files than almost
every program needs a CVE by that definition (I can think of a few
hundred programs on Linux that have config files that result in other
programs/script/commands being run that can be easily obfuscated to do
nastiness).
Steven: comments, do you think this needs a CVE?
> Thanks for the feedback,
>
> Andres Gomez
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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