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Bug 196978 (CVE-2007-4476) - app-arch/cpio safer_name_suffix buffer overflow (CVE-2007-4476)
Summary: app-arch/cpio safer_name_suffix buffer overflow (CVE-2007-4476)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2007-4476
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep...
Whiteboard: A2? [glsa]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-10-24 23:06 UTC by Robert Buchholz (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-01-10 09:02 UTC (History)
0 users

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Description Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-24 23:06:46 UTC
CVE-2007-4476 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4476):
  Buffer overflow in the safer_name_suffix function in GNU tar has unspecified
  attack vectors and impact, resulting in a "crashing stack."
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-24 23:15:34 UTC
Seems like cpio also ships this code. A patch is attached to the Debian bug in URL.

Base-system, please advise.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-10-28 21:28:35 UTC
it isnt a bug in tar or cpio or any package ... the code in question is part of gnulib, so any package that utilizes gnulib's paxnames.c file is in trouble
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-10-28 21:39:46 UTC
err, it isnt part of gnulib, it's part of paxutils ... so any project that imports paxutils is affected ;)

but a quick grep of my /var/log/portage/ (~9000 logs) shows only cpio and tar building up "paxnames.c"

cpio-2.9-r1 in the tree with the code taken from tar-1.19
Comment 4 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-28 23:28:57 UTC
Arches, please test and mark stable app-arch/cpio-2.9-r1.
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 10:16:21 UTC
alpha/ia64/sparc/x86 stable
Comment 6 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 13:18:07 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> but a quick grep of my /var/log/portage/ (~9000 logs) shows only cpio and tar
> building up "paxnames.c"
> 
which lets me to the question whether the tar package should be patched too ?
Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 20:41:40 UTC
afaik, tar-1.19 is already fixed ... if someone wants to double check ...
Comment 8 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 21:23:32 UTC
This should go to release snapshot
Comment 9 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-29 22:18:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > but a quick grep of my /var/log/portage/ (~9000 logs) shows only cpio and tar
> > building up "paxnames.c"
> > 
> which lets me to the question whether the tar package should be patched too ?

Only tar <= 1.16 is affected by this, and that's vulnerable to GLSA 200709-09 anyway.
Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-30 03:29:10 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 11 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-30 19:07:19 UTC
ppc64 stable
Comment 12 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-10-30 19:34:52 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 13 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-02 19:35:36 UTC
Still waiting for amd64 for release... I'd like to bump the priority, but don't know how that might affect security team rules (and too lazy to look... ;p) so I'm leaving it alone.
Comment 14 Thomas Anderson (tanderson) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-02 20:33:29 UTC
====amd64====

1. Compiles.
2. Installs.
3. Test all ok.
4. Runs fine as well.

Portage 2.1.3.16 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:47:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict nostrip parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/overlay"
SYNC="rsync://kv80/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi aim alsa amd64 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts branding cairo cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdread emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mqsli mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session sockets spell spl sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd test tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vim vim-syntax vorbis xcomposite xine xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 15 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-04 01:01:12 UTC
rPATH is disputing the impact of this:
    Previous versions of the cpio and tar packages are vulnerable to a
    Denial of Service attack in which an attacker can use a malformed
    archive file to cause a stack-based buffer overflow, crashing the
    application.  It is not believed that this vulnerability can be
    exploited to execute malicious code.
Also see: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1861

The original Suse description:
     This update fixes a bug in cpio in function safer_name_suffix() which
     leads to a crashing stack. Exploitability is unknown. (CVE-2007-4476)

This leaves us somewhere between A2 and A4. How do we proceed?
Comment 16 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-05 07:57:22 UTC
Stabline doesn't hurt so I suggest we continue stabling and decide later wether to release a GLSA or not.

If someone have the time to examine this closer now, they're welcome:-)
Comment 17 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-06 18:42:29 UTC
amd64 stable (worked, passed all 4 tests)
Comment 18 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-06 18:42:45 UTC
amd64 stable (worked, passed all 4 tests)
Comment 19 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-07 01:27:06 UTC
Ready for a vote, see comment #15.
Comment 20 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-07 09:38:04 UTC
I vote YES.
Comment 21 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-07 19:52:23 UTC
yestooGLSArequestfiledkthxbye
Comment 22 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-14 21:45:24 UTC
GLSA 200711-18
Comment 23 Joshua Kinard gentoo-dev 2007-11-19 05:57:14 UTC
mips got stabled at some point by someone....