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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2002.548 -- NetBSD Security Advisory 2002-023
sendmail smrsh bypass vulnerability
08 October 2002
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: smrsh (sendmail restricted shell)
Vendor: NetBSD
Operating System: NetBSD 1.6
NetBSD 1.5.3, 1.5.2, 1.5.1, 1.5
Impact: Increased Privileges
Access Required: Existing Account
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2002-023
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Topic: sendmail smrsh bypass vulnerability
Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to October 4, 2002
NetBSD 1.6: affected
NetBSD-1.5.3: affected
NetBSD-1.5.2: affected
NetBSD-1.5.1: affected
NetBSD-1.5: affected
pkgsrc: prior to/including sendmail-8.12.6
Severity: bypassing local access control
Fixed: NetBSD-current: October 4, 2002
NetBSD-1.6 branch: October 4, 2002
(1.6.1 will include the fix)
NetBSD-1.5 branch: October 4, 2002
pkgsrc: sendmail-8.12.6nb1 or later
Abstract
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If smrsh (sendmail restricted shell) is in use with sendmail,
local user can bypass access restrictions imposed by smrsh.
Technical Details
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http://www.sendmail.org/smrsh.adv.txt
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
If your system uses smrsh, your system is vulnerable.
If you see lines matching "smrsh" in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, you are using
smrsh.
% grep smrsh /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Even if you are not using smrsh, we encourage you to upgrade smrsh binary.
The following instructions describe how to upgrade your smrsh
binaries by updating your source tree and rebuilding and
installing a new version of smrsh.
* NetBSD-current:
Systems running NetBSD-current dated from before 2002-10-04
should be upgraded to NetBSD-current dated 2002-10-04 or later.
The following directories need to be updated from the
netbsd-current CVS branch (aka HEAD):
gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
# cd src
# cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
# cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
# make cleandir dependall
# make install
* NetBSD 1.6:
Systems running NetBSD 1.6 dated from before 2002-10-04
should be upgraded to NetBSD 1.6 dated 2002-10-04 or later.
The following directories need to be updated from the
netbsd-1-6 CVS branch:
gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
# cd src
# cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
# cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
# make cleandir dependall
# make install
* NetBSD 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3:
Systems running NetBSD 1.5 dated from before 2002-10-04
should be upgraded to NetBSD 1.5 dated 2002-10-04 or later.
The following directories need to be updated from the
netbsd-1-5 CVS branch:
gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install smrsh:
# cd src
# cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/sendmail/smrsh
# cd gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/smrsh
# make cleandir dependall
# make install
Thanks To
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Jeremy C. Reed for bringing the issue into attention via PR#18516.
Revision History
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2002-10-08 Initial release
More Information
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Advisories may be updated as new information comes to hand. The most
recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-023.txt.asc
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ and http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Security/.
Copyright 2002, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2002-023.txt,v 1.4 2002/10/08 03:43:36 itojun Exp $
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