Bug 94824 – net-mail/mailutils sql injection

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2005-06-02 07:15:35 UTC]

I don't think this was fixed in the last round. From Debian bug:

In /auth/sql.c there is a function sql_escape_string (...) which does
escaping of "bad" characters before feding them to DB. The problem is that
function only escapes characters ' and " (strchr ("'\"", *p)), but not \ .
Which results in problems like ... username = foo\' something being
"escaped" to username = foo \\' something which makes \ character literal
but allows escape and subsequent injection.

Solution: add \ to list of characters to be escaped.

Primoz Bratanic

[Comment 1 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-06-02 14:08:48 UTC]

Yep, files/mailutils-SQLinjection.patch fixes it.

Cheers,
Ferdy

[Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2005-06-02 22:18:30 UTC]

Thx Ferdy, this seems to be ready for GLSA decision. I tend to vote NO. 

[Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-06-03 00:44:32 UTC]

This is CAN-2005-1824.
I tend to vote YES. It probably allows to create mail accounts by SQL injection ?

[Comment 4 solar (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 05:04:17 UTC]

yes vote

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-06-04 21:12:02 UTC]

seems to only be an issue with mysql or postgres in USE ... so i think we should
have a GLSA, just make sure to note that requirement

[Comment 6 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-06-06 11:07:11 UTC]

GLSA 200506-02