FreeBSD : gzip -- directory traversal and permission race vulnerabilities (63bd4bad-dffe-11d9-b875-0001020eed82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18960

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Problem Description Two problems related to extraction of files exist in gzip :

The first problem is that gzip does not properly sanitize filenames containing '/' when uncompressing files using the -N command line option.

The second problem is that gzip does not set permissions on newly extracted files until after the file has been created and the file descriptor has been closed. Impact The first problem can allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary local files when uncompressing a file using the -N command line option.

The second problem can allow a local attacker to change the permissions of arbitrary local files, on the same partition as the one the user is uncompressing a file on, by removing the file the user is uncompressing and replacing it with a hardlink before the uncompress operation is finished. Workaround Do not use the -N command line option on untrusted files and do not uncompress files in directories where untrusted users have write access.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18960

File Name: freebsd_pkg_63bd4baddffe11d9b8750001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gzip, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/20/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-0988, CVE-2005-1228

FreeBSD: SA-05:11.gzip

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