Package: scilab-cli
Version: 5.2.2-4
Severity: grave
Tags: security
User: t...@security.debian.org
Usertags: ldpath
Hello,
During a review of the Debian archive, I've found your package to
contain a script that can be abused by an attacker to execute arbitrary
code.
The vulnerability is introduced by an insecure change to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, an environment variable used by ld.so(8) to look for
libraries on a directory other than the standard paths.
Vulnerable code follows:
/usr/bin/scilab-cli line 280:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JAVA_HOME/../Libraries:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
/usr/bin/scilab-cli line 459:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$JRE_HOME/lib/$proc/:$JRE_HOME/lib/$proc/server/:$JRE_HOME/lib/$proc/native_threads/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
/usr/bin/scilab-cli line 518:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/sw/lib/"
/usr/bin/scilab-cli line 534:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/scilab/:/usr/lib64/scilab/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
When there's an empty item on the colon-separated list of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ld.so treats it as '.' (i.e. CWD/$PWD.)
If the given script is executed from a directory where a potential,
local, attacker can write files to, there's a chance to exploit this
bug.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE id CVE-2010-3378. Please make sure
you mention it when forwarding this report to upstream and when fixing
this bug (everywhere: upstream and here at Debian.)
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3378
[1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3378
Sincerely,
Raphael Geissert
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