Bug 1388370 (CVE-2016-8615)

Summary: CVE-2016-8615 curl: Cookie injection for other servers
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bmcclain, bodavis, cfergeau, csutherl, dbhole, dblechte, dgross, dominik.mierzejewski, eedri, erik-fedora, gzaronik, hhorak, jclere, jorton, kanderso, kdudka, lgao, lsurette, luhliari, mbabacek, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mike, mturk, myarboro, omajid, paul, rh-spice-bugs, rwagner, security-response-team, sherold, slawomir, srevivo, twalsh, weli, ykaul
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: curl 7.51.0 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On: 1390894, 1390895, 1390896    
Bug Blocks: 1388393    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 08:09:27 UTC
If cookie state is written into a cookie jar file that is later read back and
used for subsequent requests, a malicious HTTP server can inject new cookies
for arbitrary domains into said cookie jar.

The issue pertains to the function that loads cookies into memory, which reads
the specified file into a fixed-size buffer in a line-by-line manner using the
`fgets()` function. If an invocation of fgets() cannot read the whole line
into the destination buffer due to it being too small, it truncates the
output. This way, a very long cookie (name + value) sent by a malicious server
would be stored in the file and subsequently that cookie could be read
partially and crafted correctly, it could be treated as a different cookie for
another server.

External References:

https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102A.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-10-25 08:48:09 UTC
Created attachment 1213756 [details]
Upstream patch

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:25:37 UTC
Created curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390894]

Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2016-11-02 08:25:52 UTC
Created mingw-curl tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1390895]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1390896]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-16 16:06:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-13 08:32:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS

Via RHSA-2018:3558 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558