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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] CVE Request -- autojump: autojump profile will load random stuff from a directory
From:       Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat ! com>
Date:       2013-04-25 18:22:54
Message-ID: 5179747E.10207 () redhat ! com
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On 04/25/2013 10:22 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Hello Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> a security flaw was found in the way autojump, a tool for faster
> filesystem navigation from the command line, used to honour content
> of custom_install directory when global and local autojump
> installations were not found, and $SHELL variable was unset or set
> to different value than bash or zsh. If an unsuspecting autojump
> user was tricked into running autojump script from the directory a
> local attacker has write access to, this flaw could be used for
> arbitrary (Python) code execution with the privileges of the user 
> running the autojump binary / script.
> 
> Relevant (final) upstream patches are as follows: [1]
> https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/commit/ad09ee27d402be797b3456abff6edeb4291edfec
>
> 
[2]
https://github.com/joelthelion/autojump/commit/c763b2afadb188ab52849c21d43d2e8fe5b8800a
> 
> References: [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950777
> 
> Credit: This issue was found and reported to Red Hat Bugzilla [3]
> by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek. Thanks also goes to Jan Pokorny for
> bringing this one to my attention, and to William Ting of autojump
> upstream for promptly fixing the issue.
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE identifier for this?
> 
> Thank you && Regards, Jan. -- Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat
> Security Response Team
> 

Please use CVE-2013-2012 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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