oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

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Message-ID: <4DBCBED0.70309@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 22:00:48 -0400
From: William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Stephane Chauveau <stephane.chauveau@...s-entreprise.com>,
        Maynard Johnson <maynardj@...ibm.com>,
        Robert Richter <robert.richter@....com>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- oprofile -- Local privilege escalation via crafted
 opcontrol event parameter when authorized by sudo

On 04/29/2011 02:16 PM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> 
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
>   It was found that oprofile profiling system did not properly sanitize
> the content of event argument, provided to oprofile profiling control
> utility (opcontrol). If a local unprivileged user was authorized by
> sudoers file to run the opcontrol utility, they could use the flaw
> to escalate their privileges (execute arbitrary code with the privileges
> of the privileged system user, root). Different vulnerability than
> CVE-2006-0576.
> 
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624212
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700883
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 
> Thank you & Regards, Jan.
> -- 
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
> 
> P.S.: Oprofile is not encouraged to be run under sudo, but still
>       should not allow escalation of privileges.

I don't know if this is the best way to fix this issue, but attached is a patch that filters out all but alpha numeric characters and '_'. Feedback on the patch would be appreciated.

-Will

View attachment "oprof-sanitize.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (792 bytes)

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