Bug 529678 – <app-admin/lsyncd-2.1.6: command injection through backticks in a filename

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 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 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 2016-08-26 05:39:56 UTC]

2.1.6 is in tree

[Comment 3 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) 2017-02-01 09:27:06 UTC]

GLSA request filed.

[Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 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).