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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2014-11-19 11:44:12 -0500
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2014-11-19 14:35:03 -0500
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CVE-2014-7817: wordexp fails to honour WRDE_NOCMD.
The function wordexp() fails to properly handle the WRDE_NOCMD flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of "$((... ``))" where "..." can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDE_NOCMD forbade command substitution. This allows an attacker to attempt to pass dangerous commands via constructs of the above form, and bypass the WRDE_NOCMD flag. This patch fixes this by checking for WRDE_NOCMD in exec_comm(), the only place that can execute a shell. All other checks for WRDE_NOCMD are superfluous and removed. We expand the testsuite and add 3 new regression tests of roughly the same form but with a couple of nested levels. On top of the 3 new tests we add fork validation to the WRDE_NOCMD testing. If any forks are detected during the execution of a wordexp() call with WRDE_NOCMD, the test is marked as failed. This is slightly heuristic since vfork might be used in the future, but it provides a higher level of assurance that no shells were executed as part of command substitution with WRDE_NOCMD in effect. In addition it doesn't require libpthread or libdl, instead we use the public implementation namespace function __register_atfork (already part of the public ABI for libpthread). Tested on x86_64 with no regressions.
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@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ Version 2.21
6652, 12926, 14132, 14138, 14171, 15215, 15884, 17266, 17344, 17363,
17370, 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522,
17555, 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585,
- 17589, 17594, 17616.
+ 17589, 17594, 17616, 17625.
+
+* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
+ under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
+ command substitution when the applicaiton did not request it. The
+ implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
+ shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can