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Message-ID: <517EC90C.7000608@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:25:00 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Alyssa Milburn <amilburn@...l.org>
Subject: Re: Multiple vulnerabilities in BOINC
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On 04/28/2013 09:58 AM, Alyssa Milburn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There have been various recent(-ish) vulnerabilities found in the
> BOINC software for desktop grid computing. The major projects have
> (hopefully) fixed all of these by now, and the clients should only
> be vulnerable if they're connected to a hostile server.
>
> The commit ids below are all from the boinc-v2 repository, see
> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/boinc-v2 for a web view.
>
> These are the ones I consider to be obviously important:
>
> * CVE-2013-2298: various stack overflow vulnerabilities in the XML
> parser used by both the client and server software. I think that
> any 7.x version is vulnerable, but possibly not the 6.12 branch or
> earlier. No promises.
>
> (Found/reported by me. I notified all public projects I could find
> who were running obviously-vulnerable copies of the code, in early
> March.)
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.distributed.boinc.user/3741
> 2fea03824925cbcb976f4191f4d8321e41a4d95b
>
> * Stack overflow in the client code by providing multiple
> file_signature elements. 6.10.58 and 6.12.34 are vulnerable. 7.x
> isn't.
>
> (This was fixed back in 2011, possibly accidentally.)
>
> 9a4140ae30a72e5175f3f31646d91f2d58df7156
Please use CVE-2013-2019 for this issue.
> * SQL injections in the server-side scheduler code:
>
> (Found/reported by me. I warned projects about this at the same
> time as the the above notifications, hopefully they've mostly
> patched it..)
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.distributed.boinc.user/3776
> 3ced18ddaaea5e03d2cc70f8cce5ab214b4d5635
>
> * SQL injections in the user-facing web scripts: (These were
> possibly found by Michael Voß, see
> http://www.mdr.de/mdr-info/hacker-boinc100.html )
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.distributed.boinc.user/3658
> e8d6c33fe158129a5616e18eb84a7a9d44aca15f
> 6e205de096da83b12ffb2f0183b43e51261eb0c4
> ce3110489bc139b8218252ba1cb0862d69f72ae3
MERGING these two issues for now. Please use CVE-2013-2018 for this issue.
And ignoring the rest unless someone says otherwise (like was this
code really used/etc.).
> And some issues I'm not sure are quite so important:
>
> * Stack overflows in the trickle code on server and client side:
>
> (Fixed back in 2011, and these were only present in experimental
> 6.13.x releases, as far as I know.)
>
> 5b04b249db166ec38c1ee99a9eadcaa300c0f454
> ae04b50a71f3e96ee1bc59b76fca97cf0fe976f7
>
> * From a few days ago, a possible format string issue(?) in the
> client code:
>
> (Noticed by Gianfranco Costamagna/Nicolás Alvarez judging by the
> thread)
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.distributed.boinc.devel/6416
> 99258dcecba8ef36e1ce0fd6e0dacffe53613ac9
>
> * An SQL injection vulnerability in the locality code (apparently
> only used by one known project), so I mention this just for
> completeness just in case anyone happens to be using it:
>
> 2dbfdc55057b2c1f0508b56244044b1ad34e7cdb
>
> - Alyssa
>
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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