Bug 146737

Summary: CAN-2005-0155 multiple setuid perl issues (CAN-2005-0156)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component: perlAssignee: Chip Turner <cturner>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 3.0CC: lockhart, mattdm, security-response-team
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=yes
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Last Closed: 2005-02-07 16:42:40 UTC Type: ---
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Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:14:11 UTC
Created attachment 110480 [details]
Text sent to vendor-sec

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:14:11 UTC
The following isuses were reported regarding running setuid perl executables
(I'm attaching the report as a text file as it is long).


buffer overflow caused by very long paths
and a PERLIO_DEBUG file overwrite bug.

Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:15:43 UTC
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1

Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:17:22 UTC
Created attachment 110481 [details]
Proposed patch

This patch needs peer review.

Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 13:56:00 UTC
CAN-2005-0155 for the privilege escalation in debug mode
CAN-2005-0156 for the buffer overflow

Comment 5 Chip Turner 2005-02-01 17:39:28 UTC
patch applied and built into dist-3.0E-errata-candidate

Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-03 09:08:09 UTC
Removing embargo, public via ubuntu

Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2005-02-03 23:02:49 UTC
This issue does not affect RHEL2.1

Comment 11 Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 16:42:40 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html