Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai () redhat com>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Josh Bressers wrote:
>
> > I'm going to give both of these the same CVE id. The issues are very
> > related, and I had look at the CWE guide, they both seem to fall under
> > "CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions"
> >
> > Steve, feel free to overrule me on this one.
>
> At a low level of granularity, it can be overkill to distinguish between 
> closely-related flaw types.
>
> The factor of concern here is that Red Hat bug 598775 suggests that the first 
> variant was committed to a changeset, but not the second.  I can't (quickly) 
> assess whether upstream committed changes for both variants, but if there's 
> only a commit for the first one (and a public release), then maybe we 
> consider these bugs as "almost-but-not-quite the same version" and assign a 
> separate CVE.

The second part about POSIX file capabilities was realized shortly 
afterwards while thinking of possible other similar cases, and has been 
fixed too now:
http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d172a194addc49851e558ea390d3045894e3230

To my knowledge no distro actually uses the file capability support in RPM 
though.

        - Panu -