Bug 1013774 - chcat does not quote its arguments properly
Summary: chcat does not quote its arguments properly
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: policycoreutils
Version: 29
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Lautrbach
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-30 18:19 UTC by Göran Uddeborg
Modified: 2019-01-23 02:28 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: policycoreutils-2.8-15.fc29
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-01-23 02:28:05 UTC
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Description Göran Uddeborg 2013-09-30 18:19:15 UTC
Description of problem:
File names that needs to be quoted are not properly handled by chcat.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-python-2.1.14-45.fc19.x86_64


How reproducible:
Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch apa '#apa' 'apa bepa'
2. chcat +c42 apa
3. chcat +c43 '#apa'
4. chcat +c44 'apa bepa'


Actual results:
The first chcat command works fine.

The second fails with an error message:
    sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

The third one fails with another error message: 
    chcon: cannot access 'bepa': No such file or directory
In addition it incorrectly sets the category to the file "apa"

I'm guessing the arguments of chcat are sent to a subshell without the necessary quoting.

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Comment 2 Göran Uddeborg 2015-01-10 17:27:34 UTC
The problem remains in policycoreutils-python-2.3-7.1.fc21.

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Comment 4 Göran Uddeborg 2015-11-07 17:10:48 UTC
The problem remains in policycoreutils-python-utils-2.4-10.fc23.x86_64.

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Comment 6 Göran Uddeborg 2016-11-27 10:52:40 UTC
The problem remains in policycoreutils-python-utils-2.5-17.fc25.x86_64.

Comment 7 Vit Mojzis 2017-01-13 12:44:24 UTC
Thank you for reporting the issue, patch is awaiting review
https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux/pull/38

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Comment 9 Göran Uddeborg 2017-11-17 20:19:54 UTC
I see a fix might be on its way.  But in policycoreutils-python-utils-2.7-1.fc27.x86_64 it isn't yet fixed, so I update the version field.

Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 18:11:26 UTC
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Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2018-11-30 18:17:49 UTC
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Comment 12 Göran Uddeborg 2018-12-03 20:38:21 UTC
The problem remains in F29, policycoreutils-python-utils-2.8-8.fc29.noarch.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2019-01-21 20:51:12 UTC
policycoreutils-2.8-15.fc29 libselinux-2.8-6.fc29 libsepol-2.8-3.fc29 libsemanage-2.8-8.fc29 checkpolicy-2.8-3.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-16fd3acb03

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2019-01-22 03:04:00 UTC
checkpolicy-2.8-3.fc29, libselinux-2.8-6.fc29, libsemanage-2.8-8.fc29, libsepol-2.8-3.fc29, policycoreutils-2.8-15.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-16fd3acb03

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2019-01-23 02:28:05 UTC
checkpolicy-2.8-3.fc29, libselinux-2.8-6.fc29, libsemanage-2.8-8.fc29, libsepol-2.8-3.fc29, policycoreutils-2.8-15.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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