524414 – <app-shells/mksh-50c: allows += from environment

Bug 524414 - <app-shells/mksh-50c: allows += from environment

Summary: <app-shells/mksh-50c: allows += from environment

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm#clog
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa]
Keywords:

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Blocks:

Reported:	2014-10-03 21:53 UTC by Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED)
Modified:	2015-11-02 16:46 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-10-03 21:53:26 UTC

From the Changes section of mksh's website:

R50c is a security fix release:

    [tg] Know more rare signals when generating sys_signame[] replacement
    [tg] OpenBSD sync (mostly RCSID only)
    [tg] Document HISTSIZE limit; found by luigi_345 on IRC
    [zacts] Fix link to Debian .mkshrc
    [tg] Cease exporting $RANDOM (Debian #760857)
    [tg] Fix C99 compatibility
    [tg] Work around klibc bug causing a coredump (Debian #763842)
    [tg] Use issetugid(2) as additional check if we are FPRIVILEGED
    [tg] SECURITY: do not permit += from environment
    [tg] Fix more field splitting bugs reported by Stephane Chazelas and mikeserv; document current status wrt. ambiguous ones as testcases too


app-shells/mksh-50c is already in the tree.

Comment 1 Kristian Fiskerstrand (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-12-12 08:14:48 UTC

New GLSA request filed. 

@Maintainer(s): Please clean up vulnerable versions from the tree

Comment 2 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2015-01-01 10:31:39 UTC

+  01 Jan 2015; Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org> -mksh-48b.ebuild,
+  -mksh-49.ebuild, -mksh-50b.ebuild, -mksh-50c.ebuild:
+  Security cleanup
+

Comment 3 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-09-27 12:32:21 UTC

https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20141003-tg.htm#e20141003-tg_wlog-10
The issue has not got a CVE identifier because it was identified as low-risk

Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2015-11-02 16:46:28 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201511-01 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201511-01
by GLSA coordinator Yury German (BlueKnight).