Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 19:11 Post subject: dropbear security
Hi all, on the latest dd-wrt firmware (r30260) there's dropbear v2016.73(!)
There's a vulnerability in this version and there's available the latest version of drobear (2016.74)
Here the changelog from official page:
2016.74 - 21 July 2016
- Security: Message printout was vulnerable to format string injection.
If specific usernames including "%" symbols can be created on a system
(validated by getpwnam()) then an attacker could run arbitrary code as root
when connecting to Dropbear server.
A dbclient user who can control username or host arguments could potentially
run arbitrary code as the dbclient user. This could be a problem if scripts
or webpages pass untrusted input to the dbclient program.
- Security: dropbearconvert import of OpenSSH keys could run arbitrary code as
the local dropbearconvert user when parsing malicious key files
- Security: dbclient could run arbitrary code as the local dbclient user if
particular -m or -c arguments are provided. This could be an issue where
dbclient is used in scripts.
- Security: dbclient or dropbear server could expose process memory to the
running user if compiled with DEBUG_TRACE and running with -v
The security issues were reported by an anonymous researcher working with
Beyond Security's SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure www.beyondsecurity.com/ssd.html
- Fix port forwarding failure when connecting to domains that have both
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The bug was introduced in 2015.68
- Fix 100% CPU use while waiting for rekey to complete. Thanks to Zhang Hui P
for the patch
It is done by KrypteX, but I don't think it is high on the priority list right now as it is a little behind.
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