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Message-ID: <54D40611.6010303@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 03:08:49 +0300
From: Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: cpio -- directory traversal
On 2015-02-02 20:48, Vitezslav Cizek wrote:
> * Dne Friday 16. January 2015, 03:44:25 [CET] Alexander Cherepanov napsal:
>> cpio is susceptible to a directory traversal vulnerability via symlinks.
>
> Here's a patch we use in SUSE for some time.
Thanks for sharing!
> It forbids to write over symlinks, similar to bsdtar.
Nice, this is a simple and easy approach. But I wonder if it's widely
acceptable. GNU tar follows symlinks which are not extracted from the
archive and, in http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/08/4,
Florian Weimer said: "If [the current directory] already contains
symbolic links, some users expect that those links are followed because
they have used symlinks to move part of the file system tree to
somewhere else (perhaps a large file system)."
--
Alexander Cherepanov
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