Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
A new patchset is below. debdiff tau_2.16.4-1.3.dsc tau_2.16.4-1.4.dsc | diffstat debian/patches/06-598303-CVE-2010-3382-insecure-library-loading.diff | 35 ++ tau-2.16.4/debian/changelog |9 ++ tau-2.16.4/debian/patches/series

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 01:40:51PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: >This makes absolutely no sense. "$TAUROOT/$TAUARCH/lib/$thebinding is >not empty. I know that. I was talking about a general case where you have just one variable. See the end of http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:37:15 +, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > > Yay overengineering. > > > > What's wrong with a simple > > export > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TAUROOT/$TAUARCH/lib/$thebinding${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" > > ? > > In the general case where you have a $foo before >

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
> Yay overengineering. > > What's wrong with a simple > export > LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TAUROOT/$TAUARCH/lib/$thebinding${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" > ? In the general case where you have a $foo before ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH} the result is not good if $foo is empty. See for e

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:43:08 +, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > +--- a/tools/src/tauex.in 2007-05-19 09:04:55.0 +1000 > b/tools/src/tauex.in 2010-10-06 19:03:38.0 +1100 > +@@ -194,7 +194,31 @@ for c in $Counters ; do > + done > + > + > +-export LD_LIBRARY_P

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-10-06 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
package tau tags 598303 + patch

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2010-10-06 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > package tau Limiting to bugs with field 'package' containing at least one of 'tau' Limit currently set to 'package':'tau' > tags 598303 + patch Bug #598303 [tau] tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading Added tag(s) patch. > stop Stopping pro

Bug#598303: tau: CVE-2010-3382: insecure library loading

2010-09-27 Thread Raphael Geissert
Package: tau Version: 2.16.4-1.3 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 b