Bug 1060602 (CVE-2014-0039)

Summary:	CVE-2014-0039 fwsnort: configuration file can be loaded from cwd when run as a non-root user
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dennis, guillermo.gomez
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	fwsnort 1.6.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On:	1060603, 1060604
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-03 00:31:46 UTC

When fwsnort was run as a non-root user, it opened the fwsnort.conf file from the current working directory if a configuration file was not explicitly specified. The configuration file can specify a directory to load libraries from, so this would have been an issue if running fwsnort in an attacker-controlled directory.

Michael Rash has released fwsnort-1.6.4 to fix this issue:

http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwsnort/download/
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog

Upstream CVE-2014-0039 fix:

https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-02-03 00:33:16 UTC

Created fwsnort tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1060603]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1060604]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-02-12 14:37:58 UTC

fwsnort-1.6.4-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-02-12 14:41:07 UTC

fwsnort-1.6.4-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-08-29 19:43:23 UTC

fwsnort-1.6.4-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:31:20 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.