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FreeBSD: VID-61BC44CE-9F5A-11EA-AFF3-F8B156C2BFE9: sympa - Security flaws in setuid wrappers

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FreeBSD: VID-61BC44CE-9F5A-11EA-AFF3-F8B156C2BFE9: sympa - Security flaws in setuid wrappers

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/24/2020
Created
05/30/2020
Added
05/28/2020
Modified
05/28/2020

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in Sympa web interface

by which attacker can execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Sympa uses two sorts of setuid wrappers:

FastCGI wrappers

newaliases wrapper

The FastCGI wrappers wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi and

sympa_soap_server-wrapper.fcgi were used to make the web

interface running under privileges of a dedicated user.

The newaliases wrapper (sympa_newaliases-wrapper) allows

Sympa to update the alias database with root privileges.

Since these setuid wrappers did not clear environment variables,

if environment variables like PERL5LIB were injected,

forged code might be loaded and executed under privileges of setuid-ed

users.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-sympa

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