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Message-ID: <20150726133302.GD12150@gremlin.ru>
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:33:02 +0300
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser
On 2015-07-23 10:09:54 -0700, Qualys Security Advisory wrote:
> We discovered a bug in userhelper, a setuid-root program from
> the usermode package
That's the requirement #1.
> userhelper's chfn() function verifies that the fields it was
> given on the command-line are sane (i.e., contain no forbidden
> characters). Unfortunately, these forbidden characters (":,=")
> do not include '\n' and allow local attackers to inject newline
> characters into /etc/passwd and alter this file in unexpected ways.
Here comes the requirement #2: adding the line to /etc/passwd must
be sufficient for the user to log in.
> Our ultimate goal is to inject an arbitrary line into /etc/passwd
> (for example, the a-line "\na::0:0::/:\n")
In my tests, I used "a::0:0::/:/bin/sh"
Obviously enough, these tests have failed with the "Authentication
service cannot retrieve authentication info" error as the requirement
#2 was not satisfied - all my hosts use TCB password shadowing.
Anyway, thank you for a nice catch :-)
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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