Bug 854011 – CVE-2012-5659 abrt: Arbitrary Python code execution due improper sanitization of the PYTHONPATH environment variable by installing debuginfo packages into cache

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Bug 854011 - (CVE-2012-5659) CVE-2012-5659 abrt: Arbitrary Python code execution due improper sanitization of the PYTHONPATH environment variable by installing debuginfo packages into cache

Summary:	CVE-2012-5659 abrt: Arbitrary Python code execution due improper sanitization...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2012-5659

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

Priority	high Severity high
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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:	Martin Kyral
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	895442 895443 906280
Blocks:	887869
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Reported:	2012-09-03 10:45 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2018-01-30 13:05 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	abrt 2.0.13
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:0215	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: abrt and libreport security update	2013-01-31 21:37:31 EST

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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-09-03 10:45:58 EDT

An insufficient environment sanitization flaw was found in the way 'abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache' tool, performing installation of required debuginfo packages into ABRT's cache, of ABRT, an automatic bug detection and reporting tool, used the PYTHONPATH environment variable. A local attacker could provide a commonly used Python module with specially-crafted content in non-standard system location / path, which would lead into arbitrary Python code execution with privileges of the 'abrt' user, when the 'abrt-action-install-debuginfo-to-abrt-cache' tool was run from the parent directory of the folder, containing the malicious module.


Issue found by: Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-09-03 10:51:36 EDT

This issue affects the version of the abrt package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the abrt package, as shipped with Fedora release of 16 and 17.

Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-12-20 05:00:00 EST

Upstream patch:

https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/changeset/b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-24 10:24:57 EST

The preliminary embargo date for this issue has been set up to next Wednesday, 30-th January of 2013.

Comment 8 Murray McAllister 2013-01-30 01:15:57 EST

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat.

Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-31 06:01:46 EST

Created abrt tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 906280]

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-31 16:39:11 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0215 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0215.html

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