Bug 1251621 – CVE-2015-5186 Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling

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Bug 1251621 - (CVE-2015-5186) CVE-2015-5186 Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling

Summary:	CVE-2015-5186 Audit: log terminal emulator escape sequences handling

Status:	ASSIGNED

Aliases:	CVE-2015-5186

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Reopened, Security

Depends On:	1400791
Blocks:	1251622 1386080
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Reported:	2015-08-07 19:54 EDT by Kurt Seifried
Modified:	2018-09-21 17:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	18 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-08-28 03:57:30 EDT
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Patch fixing unescaped control characters (27.04 KB, patch) 2015-08-10 19:39 EDT, Steve Grubb	no flags	Details \| Diff
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Description Kurt Seifried 2015-08-07 19:54:44 EDT

Steve Grubb of Red Hat reports:

When auditing the filesystem the names of files are logged. These filenames 
can contain escape sequences, when viewed using the ausearch programs "-i" 
option for example this can result in the escape sequences being processed 
unsafely by the terminal program being used to view the data.

Comment 1 Steve Grubb 2015-08-10 19:39:56 EDT

Created attachment 1061284 [details]
Patch fixing unescaped control characters

This patch will be applied upstream. Please share with other distributions. The older the audit package, the more likely they will have problems back porting.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2015-08-13 16:58:44 EDT

This has been corrected upstream with the following commit:

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/1122

Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2015-08-26 10:35:00 EDT

Acknowledgement:

This issue was discovered by Steve Grubb of Red Hat.

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