Bug 236238 (CVE-2007-2348)

Summary: CVE-2007-2348 lftp mirror --script does not escape names and targets of symbolic links
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bressers, jskala, mbarabas
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URL: http://lftp.yar.ru/news.html
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-12 16:45:54 UTC
Description of problem:

Does not escape names of symlinks when producing a script to be
passed to the shell, which could be abused by an attacked to
trick the user into executing arbitrary code with crafted symbolic
link.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

        Doesn't Affect: RHEL2.1 no support for --script
        Doesn't Affect: RHEL3 ditto
        Affects: RHEL4
        Affects: RHEL5
        Affects: FC5
        Affects: FC6

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ln -s '$(touch /tmp/gotya; echo kwak)' malicious
2. serve that file via ftp and attempt to download it with lftp via mirror --script
3. Try to run the resulting script with lftp -f
  
Actual results:

The downloaded file will point to "kwak", while file /tmp/gotya will be
created.

Additional info:

The security implications are questionable, as is the usefullness of the
--script feature itself.

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 09:37:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1278 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1278.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 12:09:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2009:1278 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1278.html

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2009-10-23 19:03:34 UTC
Reporter changed to security-response-team by request of Jay Turner.

Comment 7 Josh Bressers 2011-08-01 18:18:22 UTC
Statement:

This issue does not affect lftp as supplied with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

This issue was addressed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 by
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1278.html

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, this issue will not fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.