Hello Adolf,

> On 23 May 2025, at 13:17, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 23/05/2025 13:04, Adolf Belka wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>> On 23/05/2025 12:30, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>> Hello Adolf,
>>> 
>>>> On 22 May 2025, at 18:53, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>> 
>>>> On 22/05/2025 17:37, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>>> Hello Adolf,
>>>>> Thank you for this patch. I had merged this into next, but I will revert 
>>>>> this again.
>>>>> screen seems to ship binary objects in the source tarball:
>>>> 
>>>> Oh wow!!!
>>>> 
>>>>> root@arm64-01:/build/ipfire-2.x# tar tvfa cache/screen-5.0.1.tar.gz  | 
>>>>> grep \.o$
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     16712 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/sched.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     43808 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/backtick.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex      9080 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/winmsgcond.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     81728 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/canvas.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     50680 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/search.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     32752 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/winmsgbuf.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     11888 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/term.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex      2800 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/telnet.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     54224 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/layout.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    107776 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/mark.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     58640 2025-05-12 11:59 
>>>>> screen-5.0.1/list_generic.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     55912 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/input.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     97520 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/winmsg.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    108256 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/layer.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     50344 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/misc.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    166432 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/window.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     72440 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/help.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    154704 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/termcap.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    300672 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/display.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     73432 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/list_window.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     85392 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/resize.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    650104 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/process.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    218400 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/ansi.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex      6704 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/kmapdef.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     27016 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/logfile.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex      6760 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/pty.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     42704 2025-05-12 11:59 
>>>>> screen-5.0.1/list_display.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     14160 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/comm.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    231600 2025-05-12 12:08 
>>>>> screen-5.0.1/doc/screen.texinfo
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     42936 2025-05-12 11:59 
>>>>> screen-5.0.1/list_license.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    146368 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/socket.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex      4176 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/utmp.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     78792 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/acls.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     53560 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/attacher.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    237472 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/screen.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex    101016 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/fileio.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     98056 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/encoding.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     29592 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/viewport.o
>>>>> -rw-rw-r-- alex/alex     77104 2025-05-12 11:59 screen-5.0.1/tty.o
>>>>> They seem to be x86_64, and so the build fails on ARM. This is however 
>>>>> either a mistake or I would consider this a way to ship any backdoored 
>>>>> software. I have no time to investigate so I am going to assume the 
>>>>> latter for now and will be *very* careful.
>>>> 
>>>> Due to the CVE's open with screen-5.0.0 should I now go back and look at 
>>>> the patches from that person and make a new patch submission using those?
>>> 
>>> I did not have time yesterday to look into this…
>>> 
>>> Where did you get this tarball from? The one that I can download from 
>>> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/screen-5.0.1.tar.gz does not have any 
>>> binaries in it. Either it has been replaced or you have been given a 
>>> malicious source tarball.
>> I downloaded it from the same url you gave - https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/screen/ 
>> which I accessed from the screen-5.0.1 announcement.
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/screen-users/2025-05/msg00005.html
>> I checked the same file from that download site yesterday and it still had 
>> the .o file in it.
>> However, I did write to Alex Naumov today at 11:50, mentioning that we had 
>> found the binary object files. Now I also find that the file at that 
>> location has no .o files in it and is much smaller (obviously). However the 
>> date and time of the files is still the original one of 2025-05-15 11:48 
>> although I can't think how the file could be changed and still have the same 
>> date/time in the download site.
> 
> I just got a reply from Alex Naumov and he is just asking for the sha256sum 
> of the file I have. He hasn't mentioned about changing the file. Maybe I am 
> not remembering right about testing the downloaded file from yesterday. Using 
> the sig file that I have gives a date/time of 15 May 2025 13:36:11 CEST and 
> the one that is now available has a date/time of Thu 15 May 2025 17:48:09 
> CEST and I downloaded the file and sig file at 2025-05-15 14:02:47 at my 
> local time.
> 
> It looks to me like an incorrect file was uploaded and then identified and 
> replaced relatively quickly but as I had been keeping an eye out for the new 
> release I caught it with the old version because the current sig file has a 
> time after when I downloaded the file and I am also at CEST.
> 
> I have had another reply from Alex Naumov saying that the sha256sum is 
> different to the one he just downloaded from the download site.
> 
> I suspect there was some hiccup in what was uploaded and it was relatively 
> quickly fixed but I caught it before the fix.
> 
> I am not sure there will be any further clarification with Alex Naumov.
> 
> I will remove the old file from the source directory and use the new file and 
> sig file that I downloaded today and submit a v2 patch submission for 
> screen-5.0.1
> 
> Sorry for all the hassle.

No need to be sorry.

Thank you for reaching out to Alex. At least they are now know and we can rule 
out at least a third party trying to compromise us here.

Yes, please send another patch. I will remove the file from the builders and 
then we can run another build.

-Michael

> Regards,
> Adolf.
> 
>>> 
>>> I cannot find any signatures that would verify the former tarball or the 
>>> one that I just downloaded.
>> I still have the signature I used to confirm the original downloaded file 
>> and that is now different to the new one. That old one confirms a good 
>> signature from Alexander Naumov from that older previous file.
>> gpg: assuming signed data in 'screen-5.0.1.tar.gz'
>> gpg: Signature made Thu 15 May 2025 13:36:11 CEST
>> gpg:                using RSA key 7832918905C6D316DFB54313898D726C87C5AFE3
>> gpg: Good signature from "Alexander Naumov <[email protected]>" 
>> [unknown]
>> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
>> gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
>> Primary key fingerprint: 7832 9189 05C6 D316 DFB5  4313 898D 726C 87C5 AFE3
>> So I don't understand what is happening here.
>> Could the file and its sig file on the download site be changed without 
>> changing the download date time?
>> Regards,
>> Adolf.
>>> 
>>> -Michael
>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Adolf.
>>>> 
>>>>> -Michael
>>>>>> On 15 May 2025, at 17:25, Adolf Belka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - Update from version 5.0.0 to 5.0.1
>>>>>> - Update of rootfile
>>>>>> - 5 CVE fixes included in this version
>>>>>> - Changelog
>>>>>>     5.0.1
>>>>>> Security fix
>>>>>>     CVE-2025-46805: do NOT send signals with root privileges
>>>>>>     CVE-2025-46804: avoid file existence test information leaks
>>>>>>     CVE-2025-46803: apply safe PTY default mode of 0620
>>>>>>     CVE-2025-46802: prevent temporary 0666 mode on PTYs in attacher
>>>>>>     CVE-2025-23395: reintroduce lf_secreopen() for logfile
>>>>>>     buffer overflow due bad strncpy()
>>>>>>     uninitialized variables warnings
>>>>>>     typos
>>>>>>     combining char handling that could lead to a segfault
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <[email protected]>
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> config/rootfiles/common/screen | 3 +--
>>>>>> lfs/screen                     | 6 +++---
>>>>>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> diff --git a/config/rootfiles/common/screen 
>>>>>> b/config/rootfiles/common/screen
>>>>>> index 3442bff2b..e8b72aaa2 100644
>>>>>> --- a/config/rootfiles/common/screen
>>>>>> +++ b/config/rootfiles/common/screen
>>>>>> @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
>>>>>> etc/screenrc
>>>>>> usr/bin/screen
>>>>>> -usr/bin/screen-5.0.0
>>>>>> -#usr/share/info/screen.info
>>>>>> +usr/bin/screen-5.0.1
>>>>>> #usr/share/man/man1/screen.1
>>>>>> #usr/share/screen
>>>>>> #usr/share/screen/utf8encodings
>>>>>> diff --git a/lfs/screen b/lfs/screen
>>>>>> index 6388002cf..d1c0380fb 100644
>>>>>> --- a/lfs/screen
>>>>>> +++ b/lfs/screen
>>>>>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>>>>>> ###############################################################################
>>>>>> #                                                                        
>>>>>>      #
>>>>>> # IPFire.org - A linux based firewall                                    
>>>>>>      #
>>>>>> -# Copyright (C) 2007-2024  IPFire Team  <[email protected]>               
>>>>>>       #
>>>>>> +# Copyright (C) 2007-2025  IPFire Team  <[email protected]>               
>>>>>>       #
>>>>>> #                                                                        
>>>>>>      #
>>>>>> # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify   
>>>>>>      #
>>>>>> # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by   
>>>>>>      #
>>>>>> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> include Config
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -VER        = 5.0.0
>>>>>> +VER        = 5.0.1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> THISAPP    = screen-$(VER)
>>>>>> DL_FILE    = $(THISAPP).tar.gz
>>>>>> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ objects = $(DL_FILE)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> $(DL_FILE) = $(DL_FROM)/$(DL_FILE)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 
>>>>>> 5ff218afc1692ae201776f759ff2217a51dcf02202e4ba5d12de50a768df83e0e2a7a3511a5f85a3b21362892f31a4fd90d6444918915165ae12a8c0c2b3af39
>>>>>> +$(DL_FILE)_BLAKE2 = 
>>>>>> f33f985bb9855a5335b72f93b3e8cf8fccddc7c18d3db3fd7493da2825b17002d798e6cf95d35fc39194eb6933018be96efa0b4f6aa4894657ab258f86002220
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> install : $(TARGET)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> 2.49.0



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