Bug 1375490 (CVE-2016-6299) - CVE-2016-6299 mock: privilige escalation via mock-scm
Summary: CVE-2016-6299 mock: privilige escalation via mock-scm
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2016-6299
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1375493 1375496
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-13 09:15 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-03 06:30:28 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-09-13 09:15:12 UTC 
It was found that mock's scm plug-in would parse a given spec file with root priviliges. This could allow an attacker who is able to start a build of an rpm with a specially crafted spec file within mock's environment to elevate their priviliges and escape the chroot.

The vulnerable code in scm.py is:

    ts = rpm.ts()
    rpm_spec = ts.parseSpec(self.spec)  # the spec file is parsed as root
    self.name = rpm.expandMacro("%{name}")
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-09-13 09:15:24 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Florian Weimer (Red Hat)
Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-09-13 09:15:58 UTC 
Created mock tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1375493]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1375496]
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-09-16 23:20:52 UTC 
distribution-gpg-keys-1.7-1.fc24, mock-1.2.21-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-09-20 17:07:32 UTC 
distribution-gpg-keys-1.7-1.fc25, mock-1.2.21-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Miroslav Suchý 2016-10-03 06:30:28 UTC 
Closing because all referenced bugs have been closed.
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