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Message-ID: <20110908122534.GA2939@inutil.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:25:34 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Ferdinand <debbug@...tplaza.com>, Russ Allbery <rra@...ian.org>,
Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@...net.org>,
Chris Weyl <cweyl@...mni.drew.edu>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- libfcgi-perl / perl-FCGI:
Certain environment variables shared between first and subsequent
HTTP requests
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:32:47AM +0200, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
>
> it was found that the perl Fast CGI module did not properly clean up
> certain environment variables, related to a particular HTTP request,
> between subsequent incoming requests. Any environment variable set in
> the first pass through the code by processing the first request, that
> wasn't set in some subsequent request, has been added to the hash
> containing environment variables for that subsequent request. A remote
> attacker could use this flaw to bypass the authentication process and
> obtain access to resources, which would be otherwise protected by
> authentication.
>
> References:
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607479
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736604
>
> Russ Allbery of Debian (Cc-ed) provides further elaborated analysis
> of the reasons of the issue:
> [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607479#10
>
> Cc-ed also Sven Verdoolaege, the perl FCGI module author (as noted
> on CPAN) for his opinion too.
>
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this issue?
>
> Thank you && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team
>
> P.S.: Though the issue has been reported Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:13:40 +0100
> already, only Russ's analysis (Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:24:00 -0700)
> unveiled the full security implications of this issue. So I
> assume, the CVE-2011-* identifier would be sufficient to cover
> this issue. But feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.
> Thanks, Jan.
FYI: Debian already allocated CVE-2011-2766 to this.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=19;bug=607479
Cheers,
Moritz
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