Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: rssh > Version: 2.3.0-1 > Severity: grave > Tags: security patch > Justification: renders package unusable
> Due to missing curly braces in util.c, if rssh gets as far as checking > to see if the issued command was CVS, the check will always succeed. > Furthermore, this failure can be exploited to pass -e options to CVS, > since the command invoked will actually be /usr/bin/cvs and the security > check for -e options will be bypassed. > This breaks all use of rsync and rdist since /usr/bin/cvs is actually > invoked instead of those programs. It also bypasses all security > checking from rssh.conf if the check for what program to run gets that > far. > I've confirmed that the attached trivial patch fixes the problem. Ack, sorry, here's the patch. --- rssh-2.3.0/util.c.orig 2005-11-27 09:01:52.000000000 -0800 +++ rssh-2.3.0/util.c 2006-01-06 16:23:04.000000000 -0800 @@ -209,13 +209,14 @@ return PATH_SCP; } - if ( check_command(cl, opts, PATH_CVS, RSSH_ALLOW_CVS) ) + if ( check_command(cl, opts, PATH_CVS, RSSH_ALLOW_CVS) ){ if ( opt_exist(cl, 'e') ){ fprintf(stderr, "\ninsecure -e option not allowed."); log_msg("insecure -e option in cvs command line!"); return NULL; } return PATH_CVS; + } if ( check_command(cl, opts, PATH_RDIST, RSSH_ALLOW_RDIST) ){ /* filter -P option */ -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]