Bug 299771 (CVE-2007-5037)

Summary:	CVE-2007-5037 inotify-tools inotifytools_snprintf() buffer overflow vulnerability
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	inotify-tools	Assignee:	Dawid Gajownik <gajownik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7	CC:	lkundrak
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/26825/
Whiteboard:	source=gentoo,reported=20070920,public=20070918
Fixed In Version:	3.11-1.fc7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-11-09 23:48:37 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-09-21 07:21:40 UTC

Secunia has published following advisory regarding inotify-tools:

http://secunia.com/advisories/26825/

A vulnerability has been reported in inotify-tools, which can potentially be
exploited by malicious users to compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the
"inotifytools_snprintf()" function in src/inotifytools.c. This can be exploited
to cause a buffer overflow by e.g. creating a file with an overly long filename
in a specific directory.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code with
privileges of the application using the affected library.

NOTE: The programs shipped with inotify-tools are reportedly not affected.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.11.

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-09 18:06:49 UTC

Dawid: Do you need any help with doing the update? Or is there any other reason
this is not updated?

Comment 2 Dawid Gajownik 2007-11-09 18:43:33 UTC

Packages were built few weeks ego:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=19441
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=19436
I requested updating immediately after RPMs were ready:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/pending/inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7

I'm not sure why they were in pending state so long. I thought that someone will
push them to the updates repo. Updating process was a bit easier in FC6.

Comment 3 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-09 19:11:53 UTC

Dawid: Thanks for the update. You did everything you should have done for the
updates, it probably takes so long because we still need one person to sign the
packages, situation will improve when signing server is finished. Everytime you
think that something is wrong with any of your updates, especially security
ones, please complain on mailing list, irc channel, etc.). It might be that
there is a bug in the update system, or something like that. In case of security
updates, feel free to write to fedora-security-list or anyone from Fedora
Security Team, and we'll try the best we can to help you solve the problem.

Comment 4 Dawid Gajownik 2007-11-09 19:53:15 UTC

OK, thanks for the clarification. :)

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-11-09 23:48:36 UTC

inotify-tools-3.11-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.