[OE-core] [PATCH] openssh: CVE-2011-4327

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Thu Nov 29 17:47:29 UTC 2012


On 11/26/2012 10:13 PM, Li Wang wrote:
> A security flaw was found in the way ssh-keysign,
> a ssh helper program for host based authentication,
> attempted to retrieve enough entropy information on configurations that
> lacked a built-in entropy pool in OpenSSL (a ssh-rand-helper program would
> be executed to retrieve the entropy from the system environment).
> A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain unauthorized access to host keys
> via ptrace(2) process trace attached to the 'ssh-rand-helper' program.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4327
> http://www.openssh.com/txt/portable-keysign-rand-helper.adv
>
> [YOCTO #3493]
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Wang <li.wang at windriver.com>
> ---
>   .../openssh-6.0p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch      | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.0p1.bb |  3 ++-
>   2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.0p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.0p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.0p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8489edc
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh-6.0p1/openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch

This has already been merged, but can you please send a patch to add the 
Upstream-Status

Thanks
	Sau!

> @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
> +openssh-CVE-2011-4327
> +
> +A security flaw was found in the way ssh-keysign,
> +a ssh helper program for host based authentication,
> +attempted to retrieve enough entropy information on configurations that
> +lacked a built-in entropy pool in OpenSSL (a ssh-rand-helper program would
> +be executed to retrieve the entropy from the system environment).
> +A local attacker could use this flaw to obtain unauthorized access to host keys
> +via ptrace(2) process trace attached to the 'ssh-rand-helper' program.
> +
> +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-4327
> +http://www.openssh.com/txt/portable-keysign-rand-helper.adv
> +
> +Signed-off-by: Li Wang <li.wang at windriver.com>
> +--- a/ssh-keysign.c
> ++++ b/ssh-keysign.c
> +@@ -170,6 +170,10 @@
> + 	key_fd[i++] = open(_PATH_HOST_DSA_KEY_FILE, O_RDONLY);
> + 	key_fd[i++] = open(_PATH_HOST_ECDSA_KEY_FILE, O_RDONLY);
> + 	key_fd[i++] = open(_PATH_HOST_RSA_KEY_FILE, O_RDONLY);
> ++	if (fcntl(key_fd[0], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) != 0 ||
> ++	    fcntl(key_fd[1], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) != 0 ||
> ++	    fcntl(key_fd[2], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) != 0)
> ++		fatal("fcntl failed");
> +
> + 	original_real_uid = getuid();	/* XXX readconf.c needs this */
> + 	if ((pw = getpwuid(original_real_uid)) == NULL)
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.0p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.0p1.bb
> index 31202d4..df77040 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.0p1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.0p1.bb
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SECTION = "console/network"
>   LICENSE = "BSD"
>   LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENCE;md5=e326045657e842541d3f35aada442507"
>
> -PR = "r3"
> +PR = "r4"
>
>   DEPENDS = "zlib openssl"
>   DEPENDS += "${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'libpam', '', d)}"
> @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ SRC_URI = "ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${PV}.tar.
>              file://sshd_config \
>              file://ssh_config \
>              file://init \
> +           file://openssh-CVE-2011-4327.patch \
>              ${@base_contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)}"
>
>   PAM_SRC_URI = "file://sshd"
>




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