-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-15:14.bsdpatch Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: shell injection vulnerability in patch(1) Category: contrib Module: patch Announced: 2015-07-28 Credits: Martin Natano Affects: FreeBSD 10.x. Corrected: 2015-07-28 19:58:44 UTC (stable/10, 10.2-PRERELEASE) 2015-07-28 19:58:44 UTC (stable/10, 10.2-BETA2-p2) 2015-07-28 19:59:04 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RC1-p1) 2015-07-28 19:59:11 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p16) CVE Name: CVE-2015-1416 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The patch(1) utility takes a patch file produced by the diff(1) program and apply the differences to an original file, producing a patched version. The patch(1) utility supports certain version control systems, namely SCCS and RCS, and attempts to get or check out the file before applying a patch, if the original file do not already exist. II. Problem Description Due to insufficient sanitization of the input patch stream, it is possible for a patch file to cause patch(1) to run commands in addition to the desired SCCS or RCS commands. III. Impact This issue could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands as the user invoking patch(1) against a specically crafted patch file, which could be leveraged to obtain elevated privileges. IV. Workaround No workaround is available, but systems where a privileged user does not make use of patches without proper validation are not affected. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. A reboot is not required after updating. 2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install A reboot is not required after updating. 3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-15:14/bsdpatch.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-15:14/bsdpatch.patch.asc # gpg --verify bsdpatch.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/10/ r285976 releng/10.1/ r285978 releng/10.2/ r285979 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1.6 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVt+JfAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnmAAP/37DmuKX127SHD4Au3a1xy2F 90RP1doqTzpq2w3wzn8JPPK/IUxG6yjDWUk097/aadSMSiUWi/RyTERe68ZNHDia IkcTnvF1308OM91yAJDogTKyCpomZwWqkhDhT8qRIkRijr7gr0q3SYF2Uqrj+QKy fvhJrEEjhv9Lgw8I1qmnxWCpcmkKaW2Fm1eqplYlPOIwJky+2+Ddzv5PcjtQTjye tNIkF9D+ILmGFbotKbNPDKSxapreLOsyDnf0W9QMURi7UolF9AClZnerfVZUWy78 4lJdbC9q5bf/FNUDv2o928hMgG+cc+blaH8AGXGOgxOx3ok0XWp3xEWRJnggyrZX P6NN39u6yFSIrYaNHEwYLFGCIeA0nGWVLupq5h6WwJ+mhCpHz90kMw/5unlXc/wS mfFVMeoFiqL227qBgB4azQkiBjN/fVsqPcMv/xk0PNYHaRPS/DASRYPSJF2gXY7h fjemohKs9wmyc78nyrnayffPQ6hkXvVzw9zMfLJ1XWg/Fa/5X4u/POggivzGI4ia yrvp3zd4avNbEVwlirTxxYgQJ1X44JwTP3Tkq11fea9WJcJtjLTWpIwrHSd8PHEg n3r4bo52iPyaGORGUw3Zhx93gOse+I3ayXmBEVJLGDONlEdUf/uju0kSIyCXn4ab LvnW7evT5KHA0rh5B07E =JTtx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----