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Severity: Normal
Title: rsync: Potential information leakage
Date: August 17, 2004
Bugs: #60309
ID: 200408-17

Synopsis

rsync fails to properly sanitize paths. This vulnerability could allow the listing of arbitrary files and allow file overwriting outside module's path on rsync server configurations that allow uploading.

Background

rsync is a utility that provides fast incremental file transfers. It is used to efficiently synchronize files between hosts and is used by emerge to fetch Gentoo's Portage tree. rsyncd is the rsync daemon, which listens to connections from rsync clients.

Affected packages

Description

The paths sent by the rsync client are not checked thoroughly enough. It does not affect the normal send/receive filenames that specify what files should be transferred. It does affect certain option paths that cause auxilliary files to be read or written.

Impact

When rsyncd is used without chroot ("use chroot = false" in the rsyncd.conf file), this vulnerability could allow the listing of arbitrary files outside module's path and allow file overwriting outside module's path on rsync server configurations that allows uploading. Both possibilities are exposed only when chroot option is disabled.

Workaround

You should never set the rsync daemon to run with "use chroot = false".

Resolution

All users should update to the latest version of the rsync package.

    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=net-misc/rsync-2.6.0-r3"
    # emerge ">=net-misc/rsync-2.6.0-r3"

References

[ 1 ] rsync Advisory

http://samba.org/rsync/#security_aug04

[ 2 ] rsync 2.6.2 announcement

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync-announce/2004/000017.html

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-17.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0

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Severity: Low
Title: glibc: Information leak with LD_DEBUG
Date: August 16, 2004
Bugs: #59526
ID: 200408-16

Synopsis

glibc contains an information leak vulnerability allowing the debugging of SUID binaries.

Background

The GNU C library defines various Unix-like "system calls" and other basic facilities needed for a standard POSIX-like application to operate.

Affected packages

# Package 1 only applies to ALPHA, ARM, HPPA, IA64 and SPARC users.
# Package 2 only applies to x86 and PPC users.
# Package 3 only applies to MIPS users.
# Package 4 only applies to AMD64 users.
# Package 5 only applies to S390 users.
# Package 6 only applies to PPC64 users.

NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate to another package if one is available or wait for the existing packages to be marked stable by their architecture maintainers.

6 affected packages; please see the notes above...

Description

Silvio Cesare discovered a potential information leak in glibc. It allows LD_DEBUG on SUID binaries where it should not be allowed. This has various security implications, which may be used to gain confidentional information.

Impact

An attacker can gain the list of symbols a SUID application uses and their locations and can then use a trojaned library taking precendence over those symbols to gain information or perform further exploitation.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of glibc.

Resolution

All glibc users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv your_version
    # emerge your_version

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-16.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0