From 9dcead87e6d7f66d34e7a56d11a30daca367dffb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:17:23 +0000 Subject: pam_timestamp: fix potential directory traversal issue (ticket #27) pam_timestamp uses values of PAM_RUSER and PAM_TTY as components of the timestamp pathname it creates, so extra care should be taken to avoid potential directory traversal issues. * modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.c (check_tty): Treat "." and ".." tty values as invalid. (get_ruser): Treat "." and ".." ruser values, as well as any ruser value containing '/', as invalid. Fixes CVE-2014-2583. Reported-by: Sebastian Krahmer --- a/modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.c +++ b/modules/pam_timestamp/pam_timestamp.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ check_tty(const char *tty) tty = strrchr(tty, '/') + 1; } /* Make sure the tty wasn't actually a directory (no basename). */ - if (strlen(tty) == 0) { + if (!strlen(tty) || !strcmp(tty, ".") || !strcmp(tty, "..")) { return NULL; } return tty; @@ -243,6 +243,17 @@ get_ruser(pam_handle_t *pamh, char *ruserbuf, size_t ruserbuflen) if (pwd != NULL) { ruser = pwd->pw_name; } + } else { + /* + * This ruser is used by format_timestamp_name as a component + * of constructed timestamp pathname, so ".", "..", and '/' + * are disallowed to avoid potential path traversal issues. + */ + if (!strcmp(ruser, ".") || + !strcmp(ruser, "..") || + strchr(ruser, '/')) { + ruser = NULL; + } } if (ruser == NULL || strlen(ruser) >= ruserbuflen) { *ruserbuf = '\0';