Bug 529678 (CVE-2014-8990)

Summary:	<app-admin/lsyncd-2.1.6: command injection through backticks in a filename
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	dschridde+gentoobugs, maintainer-needed, patrick
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1165078
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	562898
Bug Blocks:

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2014-11-18 11:15:25 UTC

From ${URL} :

It was reported [1] that lsyncd is vulnerable to command injection.
If a filename has "`" (backticks), what betwwen backticks will be executed with lsyncd process privileges.
Upstream patch is at [2].

[1]: https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/issues/220
[2]: https://github.com/creshal/lsyncd/commit/18f02ad013b41a72753912155ae2ba72f2a53e52


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2015-01-04 19:17:07 UTC

CVE-2014-8990 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8990):
  default-rsyncssh.lua in Lsyncd 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to
  execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename.

Comment 2 Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2016-08-26 05:39:56 UTC

2.1.6 is in tree

Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-02-01 09:27:06 UTC

GLSA request filed.

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2017-02-10 23:11:41 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201702-05 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-05
by GLSA coordinator Thomas Deutschmann (whissi).