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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:52:19 +0100
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: so, can we do something about lesspipe? (+ a
cpio bug to back up the argument)
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 01:24:11 -0800
Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx> wrote:
> WDYT?
lesspipe is a tough one.
First of all let me remind that I recently found an out of bounds
access in less's unicode decoding itself. Upstream is not responsing
atm. It's only a read error, but it was not even fuzzing, it was an
accidental finding, I'd expect that further analysis might yield to
more.
Now lesspipe: I didn't know that this thing exists until very
recently but I was aware that less did some kind of parsing and e.g. I
quite liked the idea that you can "less" gz/bzip2 files.
Actually leaving security asside I quite like the idea of lesspipe, so
I'm reluctant to say "lesspipe scripts have gotta die / be disabled".
That said the alternative is a tough one. It would be something
like this:
* Fuzz all the things in lesspipe
* Report what you find
* Kill the tools that have unsatisfying upstream reactions and replace
them with more secure ones.
And even after doing this this probably wouldn't count as a high
security solution.
I'm aware this feels like a huge effort, but actually it fits very
well in the project I'm about to start anyway. And lesspipe gives a good
starting point to what tools might deserve some more fuzzing.
cu,
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