Re: BitKeeper /tmp vulns

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

Hopefully security () bitkeeper com (it doesn't bounce so I assume it's valid)
will review/address these.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Michael Scherer <misc () zarb org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 09:31:27AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > Not found by me, mentioned on HackerNews:
> >
> > https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/bk.sh#L485
>
> Just to clarify, the vuln was not mentioned on HN, just the new about it
> being
> under a free license. Then I did a git clone, and grep /tmp and pointed on
> internal
> IRC that, as usual, there is a ton of /tmp issue (and then Kurt did see
> and asked where I did see it,
> and answered on HN (to the question "bk is now opensource").
>
> > BitKeeper is under Apache license so here it is.
> >
> > Also a quick look at the source shows a ton of other potential /tmp/
> vulns,
> > CC'ing bitkeeper security
>
> for example:
>
> https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/utils/bk_version#L1563
>
> There is also a few here:
>
> https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/src/utils/extractor.c
>
> but that's the installation script, so unlikely to be exploitable.
>
> Or in apply-patch, etc.
>
> But there is also a few projects that are bundled (like zlib), and a few
> scripts that
> are used only at installation and/or build time, so classifying everything
> is more
> work than what I have time to devote for the project.
>
> --
> Michael Scherer



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