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Message-ID: <4DADB653.6010708@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 18:20:35 +0200
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Gerlof Langeveld <gerlof@...omputing.nl>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- atop: Symlink attacks via process
accounting file
Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
>
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> atop v1.23 and earlier created process accounting file
> (/tmp/atop.d/atop.acct)
> in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to conduct symlink
> attacks (e.g. overwrite arbitrary system files).
Looked more into this issue and seems it may not be possible to misuse this
issue. The steps are below:
tmp]# mkdir /etc/hello
tmp]# ln -s /etc/hello atop.d
tmp]# service atop start
Starting atop: [ OK ]
But atop detects the /tmp/atop.d directory already exists (/var/log/atop/atop.log contains):
warning: no process exit detection (can not create directory /tmp/atop.d)
So doesn't seem to be exploitable => taking the CVE request back, no CVE needed.
Should have checked this earlier, sorry for the noise.
Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622794
> [2] http://secunia.com/advisories/44175/
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697848
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
>
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
>
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