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Re: tcsh: unsafe tempfile in << redirects


From: Kris Kennaway <kris () FREEBSD ORG>
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:27:35 -0800

On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 04:43:35AM +0000, proton wrote:

VULNERABLE VERSIONS:

6.07.02 (Astron) 1996-10-27
6.08.00 (Astron) 1998-10-02
6.09.00 (Astron) 1999-08-16 (latest)

This was fixed in the tcsh CVS repo with the following patch. I would
have just used mkstemp() myself, but it seems okay.

Kris

Index: sh.dol.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /mnt/ncvs/src/contrib/tcsh/sh.dol.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.3.2.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.3.2.1 sh.dol.c
--- sh.dol.c    2000/06/10 22:25:57     1.1.1.3.2.1
+++ sh.dol.c    2000/11/04 22:23:29
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $Header: /src/pub/tcsh/sh.dol.c,v 3.40 2000/06/10 21:36:06 kim Exp $ */
+/* $Header: /src/pub/tcsh/sh.dol.c,v 3.42 2000/10/31 16:55:52 christos Exp $ */
 /*
  * sh.dol.c: Variable substitutions
  */
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
  */
 #include "sh.h"
 
-RCSID("$Id: sh.dol.c,v 3.40 2000/06/10 21:36:06 kim Exp $")
+RCSID("$Id: sh.dol.c,v 3.42 2000/10/31 16:55:52 christos Exp $")
 
 /*
  * C shell
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@
 heredoc(term)
     Char   *term;
 {
-    register int c;
+    int c;
     Char   *Dv[2];
     Char    obuf[BUFSIZE], lbuf[BUFSIZE], mbuf[BUFSIZE];
     int     ocnt, lcnt, mcnt;
@@ -1025,7 +1025,9 @@
     Char  **vp;
     bool    quoted;
     char   *tmp;
+    struct timeval tv;
 
+again:
     tmp = short2str(shtemp);
 #ifndef O_CREAT
 # define O_CREAT 0
@@ -1036,12 +1038,22 @@
 #ifndef O_TEMPORARY
 # define O_TEMPORARY 0
 #endif
-    if (open(tmp, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TEMPORARY) < 0) {
-       int     oerrno = errno;
-
+#ifndef O_EXCL
+# define O_EXCL 0
+#endif
+    if (open(tmp, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_TEMPORARY) == -1) {
+       int oerrno = errno;
+       if (errno == EEXIST) {
+           if (unlink(tmp) == -1) {
+               (void) gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+               shtemp = Strspl(STRtmpsh, putn((((int)tv.tv_sec) ^ 
+                   ((int)tv.tv_usec) ^ ((int)doldol)) & 0x00ffffff));
+           }
+           goto again;
+       }
        (void) unlink(tmp);
        errno = oerrno;
-       stderror(ERR_SYSTEM, tmp, strerror(errno));
+       stderror(ERR_SYSTEM, tmp, strerror(errno));
     }
     (void) unlink(tmp);                /* 0 0 inode! */
     Dv[0] = term;

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