Package: nordugrid-arc-nox-arex
Version: 1.1.0~rc6-2+b1
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:

/etc/init.d/a-rex line 281:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ARC_LOCATION/lib:$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-2010-3372. Please make
sure you mention it when fixing this bug.
You should coordinate with the release team in order to fix this bug
for Squeeze.

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3372
[1] http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-3372

Sincerely,
Raphael Geissert



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