From b9da1f441bbd8ef2c4bbcd2aabd2d42b65757827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sona Sarmadi Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 11:02:21 +0200 Subject: elfutils: CVE-2014-9447 directory traversal in read_long_names() Reference https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9447 Upstream commit with the analysis: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/?id=147018e729e7c22eeabf15b82d26e4bf68a0d18e (From OE-Core rev: 6e7badf6819f372bd6dced191c7fda9748062126) Signed-off-by: Sona Sarmadi Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- .../elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch (limited to 'meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch') diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..82b05fb08f --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils/CVE-2014-9447.patch @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +libelf: Fix dir traversal vuln in ar extraction. + +read_long_names terminates names at the first '/' found but then skips one +character without checking (it's supposed to be '\n'). Hence the next name could +start with any character including '/'. This leads to a directory traversal +vulnerability at the time the contents of the archive is extracted. + +The danger is mitigated by the fact that only one '/' is possible in a resulting +filename +and only in the leading position. Hence only files in the root directory can be +written via this vuln and only when ar is executed as root. The fix for the vuln +is to not skip any characters while looking for '/'. + +Upstream commit: +https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/elfutils.git/commit/ +?id=147018e729e7c22eeabf15b82d26e4bf68a0d18e + +Fixes CVE-2014-9447 +Upstream-Status: Backport + +Signed-off-by: Alexander Cherepanov +Signed-off-by: Sona Sarmadi +--- +diff -ruN a/libelf/ChangeLog b/libelf/ChangeLog +--- a/libelf/ChangeLog 2015-03-03 12:39:39.255277970 +0100 ++++ b/libelf/ChangeLog 2015-03-03 12:43:44.700870042 +0100 +@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ ++2014-12-28 Alexander Cherepanov ++ ++ * elf_begin.c (read_long_names): Don't miss '/' right after ++ another '/'. Fixes a dir traversal vuln in ar extraction. ++ + 2012-08-16 Roland McGrath + + * elf.h: Update from glibc. +diff -ruN a/libelf/elf_begin.c b/libelf/elf_begin.c +--- a/libelf/elf_begin.c 2015-03-03 12:39:39.835253375 +0100 ++++ b/libelf/elf_begin.c 2015-03-03 12:41:30.906543370 +0100 +@@ -744,10 +744,7 @@ + break; + + /* NUL-terminate the string. */ +- *runp = '\0'; +- +- /* Skip the NUL byte and the \012. */ +- runp += 2; ++ *runp++ = '\0'; + + /* A sanity check. Somebody might have generated invalid + archive. */ -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf