Bug 146737 - CAN-2005-0155 multiple setuid perl issues (CAN-2005-0156)
Summary: CAN-2005-0155 multiple setuid perl issues (CAN-2005-0156)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: perl
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Chip Turner
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,embargo=yes
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-02-01 03:14 UTC by Josh Bressers
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-02-07 16:42:40 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Text sent to vendor-sec (6.00 KB, text/plain)
2005-02-01 03:14 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details
Proposed patch (742 bytes, patch)
2005-02-01 03:17 UTC, Josh Bressers 		no flags Details | Diff
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Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2005:105 0 high SHIPPED_LIVE Important: perl security update 2005-02-07 05:00:00 UTC

Description Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:14:11 UTC 
Created attachment 110480 [details]
Text sent to vendor-sec
Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:14:11 UTC 
The following isuses were reported regarding running setuid perl executables
(I'm attaching the report as a text file as it is long).


buffer overflow caused by very long paths
and a PERLIO_DEBUG file overwrite bug.
Comment 2 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:15:43 UTC 
This issue should also affect RHEL2.1
Comment 3 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 03:17:22 UTC 
Created attachment 110481 [details]
Proposed patch

This patch needs peer review.
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-02-01 13:56:00 UTC 
CAN-2005-0155 for the privilege escalation in debug mode
CAN-2005-0156 for the buffer overflow
Comment 5 Chip Turner 2005-02-01 17:39:28 UTC 
patch applied and built into dist-3.0E-errata-candidate
Comment 8 Mark J. Cox 2005-02-03 09:08:09 UTC 
Removing embargo, public via ubuntu
Comment 10 Josh Bressers 2005-02-03 23:02:49 UTC 
This issue does not affect RHEL2.1
Comment 11 Josh Bressers 2005-02-07 16:42:40 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-105.html
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