Bug 1128767 (CVE-2014-5031)

Summary:	CVE-2014-5031 cups: world-readable permissions
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Francisco Alonso <falonso>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bressers, carnil, jpopelka, jrusnack, twaugh
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-03-26 21:43:17 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1122601, 1128793, 1128794, 1128795
Bug Blocks:	1101912, 1115577

Description Francisco Alonso 2014-08-11 14:07:41 UTC

It was reported [1] that CUPS does not check that files have world-readable permissions, which allow to local users to obtain sensitive information.

Upstream patches are available at [2] as well.

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/209
[2]: https://cups.org/str.php?L4455

Comment 1 Francisco Alonso 2014-08-11 14:42:27 UTC

Statement:

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Comment 4 Francisco Alonso 2014-08-11 14:46:02 UTC

Created cups tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1128795]

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2014-08-11 16:08:42 UTC

The original upstream fix was in STR #4455.

This caused a regression: 'cupsctl -U root' now fails, as does 'View Error Log' in the web interface.

The regression is STR #4461. I've made a patch for this:
  https://cups.org/str.php?L4461

Comment 7 Martin Prpič 2014-10-07 08:44:45 UTC

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that CUPS allowed certain users to create symbolic links in certain directories under /var/cache/cups/. A local user with the 'lp' group privileges could use this flaw to read the contents of arbitrary files on the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:31:58 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1388 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1388.html

Comment 9 Tomas Hoger 2015-03-26 21:43:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHBA-2015:0386 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0386.html