package: sympa severity: critical tags: upstream security patch Security advisory: https://sympa-community.github.io/security/2020-002.html
Excerpt:
--snip--
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa web interface by which attacker
can execute arbitrary code with root
privileges.
Sympa uses two sorts of setuid wrappers:
FastCGI wrappers
newaliases wrapper
The FastCGI wrappers (wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi and sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi)
were used to make the web interface
running under privileges of a dedicated user.
The newaliases wrapper (sympa_newaliases-wrapper) allows Sympa to update the
alias database with root privileges.
Since these setuid wrappers did not clear environment variables, if environment
variables like PERL5LIB were injected,
forged code might be loaded and executed under privileges of setuid-ed users.
--snap--
Affects all versions of Sympa. Patch is attached.
The following change should also be considered to switch off installation as
setuid, which is not needed in most cases:
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/pull/944/commits/bc9579c7abddc77c92ad51897bd16aba12383d5f
See also
https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/943#issuecomment-633278517
which claims that the patch
is incomplete.
CVE is not yet published.
Regards
Racke
--
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commit 3f8449c647e5ab32cf6f8837cb600c1756b6189c
Author: IKEDA Soji <ik...@conversion.co.jp>
Date: Fri Mar 27 21:28:18 2020 +0900
Sympa SA 2020-002 (candidate): Setuid wrappers should clear environment variables to avoid exploits.
diff --git a/src/cgi/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi.c b/src/cgi/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi.c
index f4c6a66..435d40c 100644
--- a/src/cgi/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi.c
+++ b/src/cgi/sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi.c
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Comite Reseau des Universites
Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 GIP RENATER
+ Copyright 2020 The Sympa Community. See the AUTHORS.md
+ file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+ <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa.git>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -24,8 +27,10 @@
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argn, char **argv, char **envp) {
+ char *myenvp[] = { "IFS= \t\n", "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
+
setreuid(geteuid(),geteuid());
setregid(getegid(),getegid());
argv[0] = SYMPASOAP;
- return execve(SYMPASOAP,argv,envp);
+ return execve(SYMPASOAP, argv, myenvp);
}
diff --git a/src/cgi/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi.c b/src/cgi/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi.c
index c66c7f8..34198ec 100644
--- a/src/cgi/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi.c
+++ b/src/cgi/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi.c
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Comite Reseau des Universites
Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 GIP RENATER
+ Copyright 2020 The Sympa Community. See the AUTHORS.md
+ file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+ <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa.git>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -24,8 +27,10 @@
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argn, char **argv, char **envp) {
+ char *myenvp[] = { "IFS= \t\n", "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
+
setreuid(geteuid(),geteuid()); // Added to fix the segfault
setregid(getegid(),getegid()); // Added to fix the segfault
argv[0] = WWSYMPA;
- return execve(WWSYMPA,argv,envp);
+ return execve(WWSYMPA, argv, myenvp);
}
diff --git a/src/libexec/sympa_newaliases-wrapper.c b/src/libexec/sympa_newaliases-wrapper.c
index a399218..a1e5935 100644
--- a/src/libexec/sympa_newaliases-wrapper.c
+++ b/src/libexec/sympa_newaliases-wrapper.c
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Comite Reseau des Universites
Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 GIP RENATER
+ Copyright 2020 The Sympa Community. See the AUTHORS.md
+ file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+ <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa.git>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -24,8 +27,10 @@
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argn, char **argv, char **envp) {
+ char *myenvp[] = { "IFS= \t\n", "PATH=/bin:/usr/bin", NULL };
+
setreuid(geteuid(),geteuid());
setregid(getegid(),getegid());
argv[0] = SYMPA_NEWALIASES;
- return execve(SYMPA_NEWALIASES, argv, envp);
+ return execve(SYMPA_NEWALIASES, argv, myenvp);
}
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