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Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues
From: Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:52:32 +0300
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:08:31PM +0100, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
we have been contacted by Stefan Fritsch of Debian Security Team about presence of nine security flaws in the logrotate utility (the list is provided below).
I've just skimmed over the list, and I only see one issue that I'd call a vulnerability in logrotate, issue #8. And we need more info on #5. The rest, as described, appear to rely on sysadmin error and to assume security properties that logrotate never advertised it had. Specifically, logrotate was never declared to be safe to use on untrusted directories, and it was an error for a sysadmin to make such an assumption. I don't mind logrotate being enhanced/hardened in this respect, but to call these vulnerabilities sounds like a stretch. Also, even if logrotate is hardened, it should not be declared to be safe to use on untrusted directories. It'd be better to explicitly state that it is not, to avoid this sort of confusion.
5) Issue #5: logrotate: Information disclosure by performing email notifications
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8) Issue #8: logrotate: TOCTOU race condition by creation of new files (between opening the file and moment, final permissions have been applied) [information disclosure]
Alexander
Current thread:
- CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Jan Lieskovsky (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Solar Designer (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Florian Zumbiehl (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Solar Designer (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Steven M. Christey (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Solar Designer (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Steven M. Christey (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Dan Rosenberg (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Steve Grubb (Mar 07)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Josh Bressers (Mar 07)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Florian Zumbiehl (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Solar Designer (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Florian Zumbiehl (Mar 04)
- Re: CVE Request -- logrotate -- nine issues Solar Designer (Mar 05)