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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:43:44 +0200
From: Johannes Segitz <jsegitz@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2017-1000083: evince: Command injection vulnerability in CBT
 handler

Hello,

we were asked to bring this to distros and per list policy it is now made
public on this list.

From: Felix Wilhelm
=========================
The comic book backend in evince 3.24.0 is vulnerable to a command
injection bug that can be used to execute arbitrary commands when a cbt
file is opened:

cbt files are simple tar archives containing images. When a cbt file is
processed, evince calls
"tar -xOf $archive $filename" for every image file in the archive:

// backend/comics/comics-document.c: 914
        command_line = g_strdup_printf ("%s %s %s",
                                        comics_document->extract_command,
                                        quoted_archive,
                                        quoted_filename);

While both the archive name and the filename are quoted to not be
interpreted by the shell,
the filename is completely attacker controlled an can start with "--"
which leads to tar interpreting it
as a command line flag.

This can be exploited by creating a tar archive with an embedded file
named something
like this: "--checkpoint-action=exec=bash -c 'touch ~/covfefe.evince;'.jpg"

(Make sure evince is not sandboxed by apparmor before trying to reproduce
the attached POC)

fwilhelm@box $ tar -tf poc.cbt
--checkpoint-action=exec=bash -c 'touch ~/covfefe.evince;'.jpg
fwilhelm@box $ ls -la ~/covfefe.evince
ls: cannot access covfefe.evince: No such file or directory
fwilhelm@box $ evince poc.cbt
fwilhelm@box $ ls -la ~/covfefe.evince
-rw-r----- 1 fwilhelm eng 0 Jun 28 11:05 /home/fwilhelm/covfefe.evince

An easy way to fix this would be to change the  ComicBookDecompressCommand
entry for tar to
{"%s -xOf --"          , "%s -tf -- %s"      , NULL             , FALSE,
NO_OFFSET}

Please credit Felix Wilhelm from the Google Security Team in all releases,
patches and advisories related to this issue.
=========================

Additional information by Michael Catanzaro:
=========================
It looks like the affected code was deleted right after the Evince 3.24.0
release, so master is not vulnerable. But current releases are. I'll ask
around to see how we want to handle this.
=========================

and

=========================
Since it looks like this can probably be used to take over a user account
with no user interaction beyond visiting a malicious webpage (via drive-by
web browser download -> nautilus thumbnailer) I guess we should probably do
a coordinated disclosure instead of just dropping new releases with no
warning.
=========================

This is tracked as CVE-2017-1000083, further information can be found at
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784630

Johannes
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