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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:15:15 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: TMP flaw in rackspace jclouds?
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On 18/06/14 10:35 PM, Andrew Gaul wrote:
> Kurt, thank you for bringing this flaw to my attention and I will
> address it tomorrow. I do not have a security background; can you
> estimate the severity and whether we can continue discussion on
> the public bug tracker?
Well you're extracting a tar gz file into a directory that an attacker
can hijack, and then moving it and using the data, an attacker can
modify all that data and cause all sorts of shenanigans.
> For now I have bcc the Apache jclouds private mailing list. Also
> note that jclouds is an Apache project not a Rackspace project and
> the canonical URLs are:
>
> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS
Ahh, derp!
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 08:52:59PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/
>
> So CC'ing Andrew, he's a consistent contributor, I can't file an
> issue in Github (no link to it) so posting here and CC'ing him.
>
> https://github.com/rackspace/jclouds/blob/master/scriptbuilder/src/main/java/org/jclouds/scriptbuilder/domain/Statements.java
>
> public static Statement extractTargzAndFlattenIntoDirectory(URI
> tgz, String dest) { return new
> StatementList(ImmutableSet.<Statement> builder() .add(exec("mkdir
> /tmp/$$")) .add(extractTargzIntoDirectory(tgz, "/tmp/$$"))
> .add(exec("mkdir -p " + dest)) .add(exec("mv /tmp/$$/*/* " +
> dest)) .add(exec("rm -rf /tmp/$$")).build()); }
>
>
> This is insecure, $$ == PID == predictable
>
> http://kurt.seifried.org/2012/03/14/creating-temporary-files-securely/
>
> use java.io.File.createTempFile() ? some interesting info at
> http://www.veracode.com/blog/2009/01/how-boring-flaws-become-interesting/
>
> for directories there is a helpful posting at
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/617414/create-a-temporary-directory-in-java
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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