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Re: svn commit: r1805398 - in /subversion/site/publish/security: CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt.asc

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:55:57 +0200

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 05:33:14PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> stsp_at_apache.org wrote on Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:33 +0000:
> > +++ subversion/site/publish/security/CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt Fri Aug 18 10:33:10 2017
> > @@ -80,24 +96,36 @@ Recommendations:
> > the included patch.
> >
> > 3. Clients that are not able to execute the 'ssh' command are not vulnerable.
> > ⋮
> > + If the value of this option is set to a non-existent path, then svn+ssh://
> > + URLs will no longer work but the svn client will not be vulnerable:
> > + ssh = /this/path/does/not/exist
>
> This workaround does not work if --config-option is passed on the command line.
>
> I think it is not unusual to invoke svn(1) through a wrapper that always sets
> some options. (In this specific case, someone might have an alias to svn that
> sets config:tunnels:ssh differently depending on what jumphost they need to use.)
>
> I think the advisory should be complete, i.e., cover every supported use-case,
> so it can be used as a checklist that users go through, and once they have done
> so they can be sure that they are no longer vulnerable. That said, I do agree
> that a shortened version that covers only the most common use-cases would be a
> Good Thing as well.
>
> Here's suggested text for the former; the latter can be addressed in follow-up
> commits:
>
> Index: CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt
> ===================================================================
> --- CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt (revision 1805448)
> +++ CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt (working copy)
> @@ -107,6 +107,9 @@
> If the value of this option is set to a non-existent path, then svn+ssh://
> URLs will no longer work but the svn client will not be vulnerable:
> ssh = /this/path/does/not/exist
> + This trick WILL NOT WORK if the option setting is overridden by the
> + --config-option=config:tunnels:ssh=foo command-line option of the
> + command-line client.

Is the same not true for the 'ssh -q --' trick?

I would suggest we add a paragraph such as:

Index: CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt
===================================================================
--- CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt (revision 1805402)
+++ CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt (working copy)
@@ -123,6 +123,11 @@ Recommendations:
   either the svn client must be upgraded or svn+ssh:// URLs must be disabled
   entirely as described above.
 
+ Note that the svn client supports the --config-option option which can
+ be used to override settings specified in the configuration file.
+ If this option is used to configure the ssh tunnel command, the same
+ guidelines should be applied to prevent an attack.
+
   The "[tunnels]" section may define additional third-party custom tunnels;
   those may be vulnerable if they do not perform input validation on their
   first argument, which contains the hostname to connect to.
Received on 2017-08-18 19:57:52 CEST

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