-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Remote command execution in ftp(1) Category: core Module: ftp Announced: 2014-11-04 Credits: Jared McNeill, Alistair Crooks Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2014-11-04 23:29:57 UTC (stable/10, 10.1-PRERELEASE) 2014-11-04 23:34:46 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RC4-p1) 2014-11-04 23:34:46 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RC3-p1) 2014-11-04 23:34:46 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RC2-p3) 2014-11-04 23:31:17 UTC (releng/10.0, 10.0-RELEASE-p12) 2014-11-04 23:30:47 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE) 2014-11-04 23:33:46 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p5) 2014-11-04 23:33:17 UTC (releng/9.2, 9.2-RELEASE-p15) 2014-11-04 23:32:45 UTC (releng/9.1, 9.1-RELEASE-p22) 2014-11-04 23:30:23 UTC (stable/8, 8.4-STABLE) 2014-11-04 23:32:15 UTC (releng/8.4, 8.4-RELEASE-p19) CVE Name: CVE-2014-8517 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/>. I. Background The ftp(1) userland utility is an interactive FTP client. It can also be used non-interactively, by providing a URL on the command line. In this mode, it supports HTTP in addition to FTP. II. Problem Description A malicious HTTP server could cause ftp(1) to execute arbitrary commands. III. Impact When operating on HTTP URIs, the ftp(1) client follows HTTP redirects, and uses the part of the path after the last '/' from the last resource it accesses as the output filename if '-o' is not specified. If the output file name provided by the server begins with a pipe ('|'), the output is passed to popen(3), which might be used to execute arbitrary commands on the ftp(1) client machine. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. Users are encouraged to replace ftp(1) in non-interactive use by either fetch(1) or a third-party client such as curl or wget. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install 3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. [FreeBSD 8] # fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:26/ftp-8.patch # fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:26/ftp-8.patch.asc # gpg --verify ftp-8.patch.asc [All other versions] # fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:26/ftp.patch # fetch http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-14:26/ftp.patch.asc # gpg --verify ftp.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile ftp. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ftp # make && make install VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/8/ r274108 releng/8.4/ r274111 stable/9/ r274109 releng/9.1/ r274112 releng/9.2/ r274113 releng/9.3/ r274114 stable/10/ r274107 releng/10.0/ r274110 releng/10.1/ r274115 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: <URL:http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN> VII. References <URL:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8517> The latest revision of this advisory is available at <URL:http://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:26.ftpd.asc> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJUWWUQAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnhUwP+wQKrgKs6lRk6Yl4UtRyEwyG BHGkA62oaQbehuccahjQgIcLTk3Vp3AalXtSQpdyWJktHiYrFwBnheW/IrhJ6bMS dpJv3yqqQtSED9sADf+GAvxV6TG9bknq/RDxXKpsQ/MocYbiVxz/3nDOMz9CB7ep saDttvGHW7RUmNoKL70pgItGapiVuBzMF01PCZ2SmFiJHYi7BoiJwm72Y1NLU8YE TkiX2ZAoTVMN5/R3DW38HyVCyeY2tMTHSdQXRSYjwzJ0gEbBPWMPQyB1SAa8dtk5 j54KFNOBoaXMjd3USqFgo0fduU3rGZp5PwITTx5Rx5Ixtz2vHddyOISV0RcjA0cq TWDwBGlKET7qZ1j7nHTgy4U4wMTWFbkjjqEY+RHYywaAmy8ACDmEUci8d3fWKWVY d4y8RCvBrlnFVjmNiNcBc5XFXxY0Ra3BQ8C/VE0k0ZFuzmFUCi+DJZDR2Gtl0R9Q 1hAdj+yOJo46ylHPiSyoBZmsRZccV1a81phOPe0mPR84BvzNvBsdI+EFIJWi+5bw bjuSM8YCOHrlGkqh9h9+BizvLfJFpjUSglwzPmOfRpTv59XJpc6D1Hia+uICTEfd lSiJgDZ6enozY7QVoiO7G/ycyQCVe7Ehwywx/dpWXVpva85tn4Xl2khBCiPNbBBo xnPjqxmwGK+4uegsO6CY =QT3h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----