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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:00:48 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
        bugtraq <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>,
        full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
        luislavena@...il.com, ryand-ruby@...spider.com, rubyforge@...1.net,
        rubysec@...glegroups.com
Subject: CVE-2013-0162 rubygem-ruby_parser: incorrect temporary file usage
 / Public Service Announcement

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This is a relatively minor issue, hence no embargo.

Michael Scherer (mscherer@...hat.com) of Red Hat found:

Looking for incorrect /tmp/ usage, I found the following piece of code
in /usr/share/gems/gems/ruby_parser-2.0.4/lib/gauntlet_rubyparser.rb
(https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby_parser)

  def diff_pp o1, o2
    require 'pp'

    File.open("/tmp/a.#{$$}", "w") do |f|
      PP.pp o1, f
    end

    File.open("/tmp/b.#{$$}", "w") do |f|
      PP.pp o2, f
    end

    `diff -u /tmp/a.#{$$} /tmp/b.#{$$}`
  ensure
    File.unlink "/tmp/a.#{$$}" rescue nil
    File.unlink "/tmp/b.#{$$}" rescue nil
  end

This was assigned CVE-2013-0162. The current version of ruby_parser is
3.1.1 and is affected. Fixing this is simple:

diff --git a/lib/gauntlet_rubyparser.rb b/lib/gauntlet_rubyparser.rb
index 4463c38..85137f9 100755
- --- a/lib/gauntlet_rubyparser.rb
+++ b/lib/gauntlet_rubyparser.rb
@@ -35,18 +35,19 @@ class RubyParserGauntlet < Gauntlet
   def diff_pp o1, o2
     require 'pp'

- -    File.open("/tmp/a.#{$$}", "w") do |f|
- -      PP.pp o1, f
- -    end
+    file_a = Tempfile.new('ruby_parser_a')
+    PP.pp o1, file_a
+    file_a.close
+
+    file_b = Tempfile.new('ruby_parser_b')
+    PP.pp o2, file_b
+    file_b.close

- -    File.open("/tmp/b.#{$$}", "w") do |f|
- -      PP.pp o2, f
- -    end

- -    `diff -u /tmp/a.#{$$} /tmp/b.#{$$}`
+    `diff -u #{file_a.path} #{file_b.path}`
   ensure
- -    File.unlink "/tmp/a.#{$$}" rescue nil
- -    File.unlink "/tmp/b.#{$$}" rescue nil
+    file_a.unlink
+    file_b.unlink
   end

CC'ing the 3 people listed on ruby_parser as "owners".

Also I will be auditing a number of rubygems for various easy things,
as a reminder tmp file vulns are EASY to fix, just use the functions
listed in:

http://kurt.seifried.org/2012/03/14/creating-temporary-files-securely/

===============================
Public Service Announcement
===============================

For public issues please start CC'ing oss-security@ (especially if it
needs a CVE), and also rubysec@...glegroups.com which will notify the
Ruby Security people (and then cool things like their tools will warn
users of outdated/insecure versions and so on).

For private/embargoed issues the rubygems.org/community is considering
some ways to make it easier to report security issues in gems, we'll
keep you posted.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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