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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 21:49:16 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: mmcallis@...hat.com, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: meissner@...e.de, Kurt Seifried <kseifrie@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE needed for hplip insecure auto update feature?
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On 12/04/2013 09:02 PM, Murray McAllister wrote:
> Hello,
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853405 talks about an
> upgrade feature in hplip downloading (via HTTP) a binary and
> executing it. Is a CVE needed for that?
>
> Along with the versions in
> <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853405#c6>, the hplip
> 1.6.7 and hplip3 3.9.8 versions I looked at did not have the
> upgrade.py file in the source (newer version like 3.13.11 had it in
> the source but the RPM spec file looks to remove it at build time,
> so it is not provided in the binary RPMs).
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Murray McAllister / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
I'm going to say this deserves a CVE due to the following factors:
1) the default is insane:
if HPLIP_PATH is None:
url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/%s/hplip-%s.run/download"
2) A google search for "HPLIP_PATH" yields 6 results. _6_. This is not
documented anywhere I can find.
3) I checked the source code:
[kseifrie@...alhost hplip-3.13.9]$ find ./ -type f | xargs grep
HPLIP_PATH
./upgrade.py:HPLIP_PATH=None
./upgrade.py: HPLIP_PATH=a
./upgrade.py: if HPLIP_PATH is not None:
./upgrade.py: if os.path.exists(HPLIP_PATH):
./upgrade.py: download_file = HPLIP_PATH
./upgrade.py: log.error("%s file is not present.
Downloading from Net..." %HPLIP_PATH)
./upgrade.py: HPLIP_PATH = None
./upgrade.py: if HPLIP_PATH is None:
Again no documents. Not even a hint (e.g. --help listing command line
options)
Definitely CVE worthy. Please use CVE-2013-6427 for this issue.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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