Bug 1060602 (CVE-2014-0039) - CVE-2014-0039 fwsnort: configuration file can be loaded from cwd when run as a non-root user
Summary: CVE-2014-0039 fwsnort: configuration file can be loaded from cwd when run as ...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2014-0039
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1060603 1060604
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-03 00:31 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:13 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: fwsnort 1.6.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:31:20 UTC
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-03 00:31:46 UTC 
When fwsnort was run as a non-root user, it opened the fwsnort.conf file from the current working directory if a configuration file was not explicitly specified. The configuration file can specify a directory to load libraries from, so this would have been an issue if running fwsnort in an attacker-controlled directory.

Michael Rash has released fwsnort-1.6.4 to fix this issue:

http://www.cipherdyne.org/fwsnort/download/
https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/blob/master/ChangeLog

Upstream CVE-2014-0039 fix:

https://github.com/mrash/fwsnort/commit/fa977453120cc48e1654f373311f9cac468d3348
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-02-03 00:33:16 UTC 
Created fwsnort tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1060603]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1060604]
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2014-02-12 14:37:58 UTC 
fwsnort-1.6.4-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-02-12 14:41:07 UTC 
fwsnort-1.6.4-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-08-29 19:43:23 UTC 
fwsnort-1.6.4-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:31:20 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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