oss-security - Re: Old cscope buffer overflow

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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0905061146210.3040@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 11:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: Old cscope buffer overflow


On Tue, 5 May 2009, Tomas Hoger wrote:

> If you're preparing cscope updates for CVE-2009-0148 and you may still
> be shipping packages based on 15.5, you may want to have a look at:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499174
>
> Steve, as the first public report for this is from 2006:
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=189666
>
> I believe 2006 CVE id is needed here.

We recently updated CVE-2009-0148 for overflows in cscope before 15.7a.
Is this the same issue, or do we need a different one?

This seems to be distinct from CVE-2006-4262 as well...

======================================================
Name: CVE-2006-4262
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4262
Reference: CONFIRM:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266761&forum_id=33500
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203645
Reference: CONFIRM:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=30266760&forum_id=33500
Reference: DEBIAN:DSA-1186
Reference: URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1186
Reference: GENTOO:GLSA-200610-08
Reference: URL:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200610-08.xml
Reference: BID:19686
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19686
Reference: BID:19687
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19687
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2006-3374
Reference: URL:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3374
Reference: OSVDB:28135
Reference: URL:http://www.osvdb.org/28135
Reference: OSVDB:28136
Reference: URL:http://www.osvdb.org/28136
Reference: SECUNIA:21601
Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/21601
Reference: SECUNIA:22239
Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22239
Reference: SECUNIA:22515
Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22515
Reference: XF:cscope-reffile-bo(28546)
Reference: URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28546
Reference: XF:cscope-cscopelists-bo(28545)
Reference: URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28545

Multiple buffer overflows in cscope 15.5 and earlier allow
user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and
possibly execute arbitrary code via multiple vectors including (1) a
long pathname that is not properly handled during file list parsing,
(2) long pathnames that result from path variable expansion such as
tilde expansion for the HOME environment variable, and (3) a long -f
(aka reffile) command line argument.


======================================================
Name: CVE-2009-0148
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0148
Reference: MLIST:[cscope-cvs] 20090410 CVS: cscope/src snprintf.c, NONE, 1.1 build.c, 1.14, 1.15 command.c, 1.32, 1.33 dir.c, 1.30, 1.31 display.c, 1.29, 1.30 edit.c, 1.6, 1.7 exec.c, 1.11, 1.12 find.c, 1.20, 1.21 global.h, 1.36, 1.37 main.c, 1.45, 1.46 Makefile.am, 1.12, 1.13 Makefile.in, 1.15, 1.16 vpaccess.c, 1.2, 1.3 vpfopen.c, 1.3, 1.4 vpopen.c, 1.4, 1.5
Reference: URL:http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=E1LsGx3-00015K-TN%40ddv4jf1.ch3.sourceforge.com&forum_name=cscope-cvs
Reference: CONFIRM:http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=947983
Reference: CONFIRM:http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=4664&release_id=679527
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490667
Reference: SECUNIA:34978
Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/34978
Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2009-1238
Reference: URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1238

Multiple buffer overflows in Cscope before 15.7a allow remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) long pathnames, (2) long
source-code strings, and other vectors.

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