CVE request for bcfg2 (remote root)

[Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw () debian org>]

Hi,

A bug report in Debian has come to light for which I can find no other
information, and therefore I do not believe it has a CVE - but probably
should.

From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640028 :

"All released stable versions of the bcfg2-server contain several cases
where data from the client is used in a shell command without properly
escaping it first. The 1.2 prerelease series has been fixed.

"At least the SSHbase plugin has been confirmed as being exploitable.
This is a remote root hole, which requires that the SSHbase plugin is
enabled and that the attacker has control of a bcfg2 client machine."

A patch for the problem has been commited [1] upstream and backported [2] to
the 1.1 series.

1: https://github.com/solj/bcfg2/commit/f4a35efec1b6a1e54d61cf1b8bfc83dd1d89eef7
2: https://github.com/solj/bcfg2/commit/46795ae451ca6ede55a0edeb726978aef4684b53

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Thanks,

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Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw () debian org
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