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Message-ID: <50D49BE1.2050602@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:26:57 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: David Holland <dholland-oss-security@...bsd.org>
Subject: Re: Isearch insecure temporary files
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On 12/21/2012 04:05 AM, David Holland wrote:
> NetBSD pkgsrc ships an old text search package called Isearch,
> which I found tonight (in the course of making it compile with a
> modernish C++ compiler) to contain garden-variety /tmp races.
>
> Does anyone else ship it? I don't think this is worth a CVE unless
> someone does; the package appears to be dead upstream.
This is similar to http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/142
Ideally we need some way to mark software as dead/unsafe/don't use. I
don't know what the answer is though (does someone maintain a
blacklist? who decides? etc.).
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/47360 for reference; the relevant portions
> of the patches cited follow.
Yeah that's pretty classic /tmp vulns. Please use CVE-2012-5663 for
this issue.
> --- doctype/anzmeta.cxx~ 2000-10-11 14:02:15.000000000 +0000 +++
> doctype/anzmeta.cxx @@ -1446,9 +1448,21 @@ ANZMETA::Present (const
> RESULT& ResultRe } else { STRING s_cmd; //CHR* c_cmd; - CHR
> *TmpName; + CHR TmpName[64]; + int fd;
>
> - TmpName = tempnam("/tmp", "mpout"); + strcpy(TmpName,
> "/tmp/mpoutXXXXXX"); + fd = mkstemp(TmpName); + if (fd
> < 0) { + /* + * Apparently failure is not an option here, so +
> * proceed in a way that at least won't be insecure. + */ +
> strcpy(TmpName, "/dev/null"); + } + else { +
> close(fd); + }
>
> cout << "[ANZMETA::Present] no docs found, so build Fly cmd" <<
> endl;
>
> --- doctype/fgdc.cxx~ 2000-09-06 18:20:30.000000000 +0000 +++
> doctype/fgdc.cxx @@ -1824,10 +1826,22 @@ FGDC::Present (const
> RESULT& ResultRecor return; } else { STRING s_cmd; - CHR
> *TmpName; - - TmpName = tempnam("/tmp", "mpout"); + CHR
> TmpName[64]; + int fd;
>
> + strcpy(TmpName, "/tmp/mpoutXXXXXX"); + fd =
> mkstemp(TmpName); + if (fd < 0) { + /* + * Apparently
> failure is not an option here, so + * proceed in a way that at
> least won't be insecure. + */ + strcpy(TmpName, "/dev/null");
> + } + else { + close(fd); + } +
> BuildCommandLine(mpCommand, HoldFilename, RecordSyntax, TmpName,
> &s_cmd); system(s_cmd); --- src/marc.cxx.orig 1998-05-12
> 16:49:10.000000000 +0000 +++ src/marc.cxx @@ -194,9 +194,15 @@
> MARC::GetPrettyBuffer(STRING *Buffer) { /* // Cheese, cheese,
> cheese;-) - char *tempfile = tempnam("/tmp", "marc"); + char
> tempfile[32]; + strcpy(tempfile, "/tmp/marcXXXXXX"); + int tempfd
> = mkstemp(tempfile); + if (tempfd < 0) { + *Buffer =
> "MARC::GetPrettyBuffer() failed to open temp file"; + return; +
> } FILE *fp; - if((fp = fopen(tempfile, "w")) == NULL) { + if((fp
> = fdopen(tempfd, "w")) == NULL) { *Buffer =
> "MARC::GetPrettyBuffer() failed to open temp file"; return; }
>
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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