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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:55:09 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: mmcallis@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 767227@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: lsyncd command injection

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> There is a command injection flaw in lsyncd, a file change monitoring
> and synchronization daemon:
> 
> https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/issues/220
> 
> https://github.com/creshal/lsyncd/commit/18f02ad013b41a72753912155ae2ba72f2a53e52
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767227

Use CVE-2014-8990. The scope of this CVE ID includes both:

  1. code execution with ` characters or other characters that are
     special to a shell
  2. denial of service scenarios in which a user with write access
     to a local directory uses special characters to make
     synchronization fail (might have security relevance in some
     scenarios)

The MITRE CVE team does not have a Lua expert. The code change adds:

  local path1 = event.path:gsub ('"', '\\"'):gsub ('`', '\\`'):gsub ('%$','\\%$')
  local path2 = event2.path:gsub ('"', '\\"'):gsub ('`', '\\`'):gsub ('%$','\\%$')

This does not seem to be the typical fix approach for unsafe input to
a shell. Has anyone concluded that this is an incomplete fix that ought
to be modified before the 2.1.6 release?

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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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