[ltt-dev] [geissert at debian.org: Bug#598309: ust-bin: CVE-2010-3386: insecure library loading]

[Alexandre Montplaisir]

On 10-09-29 09:47 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> * Jon Bernard (jbernard at debian.org) wrote:
>> I just received this bug report and wanted to forward it here to get any
>> thoughts and/or opinions.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jon
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from Raphael Geissert<geissert at debian.org>  -----
>>
>> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 04:23:22 +0000
>> From: Raphael Geissert<geissert at debian.org>
>> To: submit at bugs.debian.org
>> Subject: Bug#598309: ust-bin: CVE-2010-3386: insecure library loading
>> Reply-To: Raphael Geissert<geissert at debian.org>, 598309 at bugs.debian.org
>>
>> Package: ust-bin
>> Version: 0.7-1
>> Severity: grave
>> Tags: security
>> User: team at security.debian.org
>> Usertags: ldpath
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> During a review of the Debian archive, I've found your package to
>> contain a script that can be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary
>> code.
>>
>> The vulnerability is introduced by an insecure change to
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and environment variable used by ld.so(8) to look for
>> libraries on a directory other than the standard paths.
>>
>> Vulnerable code follows:
>>
>> /usr/bin/usttrace line 136:
>> 	    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${LIBUST_PATH%libust.so}"
>> /usr/bin/usttrace line 144:
>> 	    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${LIBUST_PATH%libust.so}"
> Changing this for something like the following should do the trick:
>
> if [ "x${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" != "x" ]; then
> 	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${LIBUST_PATH%libust.so}"
> else
> 	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LIBUST_PATH%libust.so}"
> fi
>

Don't we still have the same problem, that if LD_LIBRARY_PATH *already* 
contains a " " in the list, it will still be there after we append 
LIBUST_PATH?

libust.so gets installed in /usr/lib for those who install the package. 
For the others, don't we add an entry in ld.so.cache?

Alexandre


> (untested, but should do the trick)
>
> Note that I added extra braces ( ${} ) to delimit the variable more
> clearly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
>
>> When there's an empty item on the colon-separated list of
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ld.so treats it as '.' (i.e. CWD/$PWD.)
>> If the given script is executed from a directory where a potential,
>> local, attacker can write files to, there's a chance to exploit this
>> bug.
>>
>> This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE id CVE-2010-3386. Please make sure
>> you mention it when forwarding this report to upstream and when fixing
>> this bug (everywhere: upstream and here at Debian.)
>>
>> [0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3386
>> [1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3386
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Raphael Geissert
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- End forwarded message -----
>>
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