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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 23 Jun 2005 17:52:20 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 23 10:52:20 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from smtp05.web.de [217.72.192.209] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1DlVsB-0002tz-00; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:52:19 -0700 Received: from [217.251.232.112] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.105 #297) id 1DlVrg-0001Qv-00 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:51:48 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:51:26 +0200 From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: backup-manager: insecure handling of temporary files Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Level: Package: backup-manager Version: 0.5.7-1 Severity: critical Justification: root security hole Tags: patch The optional CD-burning feature of backup-manager uses a hardcoded filename (/tmp/bm-cdrecord.log) for logging the output of cdrecord. If a malicious (or just unlucky) user makes /tmp/bm-cdrecord.log a symlink to a system file, that file will be overwritten in the next run of backup-manager. A demonstration follows: $ whoami sven $ ls -l /etc/junk; cat /etc/junk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Jun 22 21:23 /etc/junk This will soon be overwritten! $ ln -s /etc/junk /tmp/bm-cdrecord.log $ su -c backup-manager Password: unable to mount 0,1,0 on /tmp/bm-mnt $ ls -l /etc/junk; head -n 3 /etc/junk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1431 Jun 22 21:25 /etc/junk scsidev: '0,1,0' scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Replace /etc/junk with /etc/passwd, and the system becomes slightly less usable. :-( A solution is to use "mktemp" instead of a hardcoded file name, I suggest the following patch: ---------------------------------------------------------- diff -u /usr/sbin/backup-manager /home/sven/backup-manager --- /usr/sbin/backup-manager 2005-04-04 22:39:22.000000000 +0200 +++ /home/sven/backup-manager 2005-06-22 21:49:17.000000000 +0200 @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ lockfile="/var/run/backup-manager.pid" md5sum="/usr/bin/md5sum" bc="/usr/bin/bc" -logfile="/tmp/bm-cdrecord.log" -mount_point="/tmp/bm-mnt" +logfile="$(mktemp /tmp/bm-cdrecord.log.XXXXXX)" +mount_point="$(mktemp -d /tmp/bm-mnt.XXXXXX)" # Load the backup-manager's library . $libdir/gettext.sh ----------------------------------------------------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.31 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages backup-manager depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii gzip 1.3.5-10 The GNU compression utility -- debconf information: backup-manager/upload-key: * backup-manager/name-format: long backup-manager/upload-hosts: backup-manager/upload-user-ftp: * backup-manager/cron_frequency: daily * backup-manager/blacklist: /home/sven/tmp * backup-manager/time-to-live: 5 * backup-manager/burning-maxsize: 650 backup-manager/upload-user-scp-warning: backup-manager/transfert_mode: scp * backup-manager/dump_symlinks: false backup-manager/upload-user-scp: bmngr * backup-manager/burning-device: 0,1,0 backup-manager/upload-dir: /var/archives/uploads * backup-manager/directories: /etc /home/sven /root * backup-manager/filetype: tar.gz * backup-manager/backup-repository: /var/archives * backup-manager/burning-method: CDR * backup-manager/burning-enabled: true backup-manager/cron_remove_deprecated: false * backup-manager/want_to_upload: false --------------------------------------- Received: (at 315582-done) by bugs.debian.org; 28 Sep 2005 09:07:35 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 28 02:07:35 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from www.sukria.net [81.56.73.92] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1EKXuY-0004aB-00; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:07:34 -0700 Received: by www.sukria.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1638621EF79; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:04:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:04:51 +0200 From: Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bug closed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.8-powerpc (ppc) X-Uptime: 11:03:33 up 15:29, 9 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00 X-PGP-ID: 1EE5DD34 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-CrossAssassin-Score: 2 Those bugs are closed in sarge now, and they are not open in etch and sid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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