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...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-5659
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact: Martin Kyral
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Depends On: 895442 895443 906280
Blocks: 887869
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-03 14:45 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-12 22:47 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: abrt 2.0.13
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2021-10-19 21:56:51 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0215 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: abrt and libreport security update 2013-02-01 02:37:31 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-09-03 14:45:58 UTC 
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 14:51:36 UTC 
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 10:00:00 UTC 
Upstream patch:

https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/changeset/b173d81b577953b96a282167c7eecd66bf111a4f
Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-01-24 15:24:57 UTC 
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 06:15:57 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Miloslav Trmač of Red Hat.
Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-31 11:01:46 UTC 
Created abrt tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 906280]
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-31 21:39:11 UTC 
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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