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| author | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2008-11-08 00:08:44 +0100 |
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| committer | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2008-11-08 00:08:44 +0100 |
| commit | 3c6c129100ba7b721fa57a56bba2b7a36739f4fc (patch) | |
| tree | 69a925825faf76f896a6f109ddda8e7d6ddf690e /doc | |
| parent | f8fee76f99bdf550dab6b0e3f699441577254e84 (diff) | |
po: started research on gettext/po4a security
Signed-off-by: intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/po.mdwn | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn index ddd0f5870..39575fb63 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/po.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/po.mdwn @@ -217,9 +217,28 @@ Security checks - Can any sort of directives be put in po files that will cause mischief (ie, include other files, run commands, crash gettext, - whatever). + whatever). The [PO file + format](http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#PO-Files) + should contain the answer. - Any security issues on running po4a on untrusted content? +### Security history + +#### GNU gettext +- [CVE-2004-0966](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0966) + / [Debian bug #278283](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278283): + the autopoint and gettextize scripts in the GNU gettext package + 1.14 and later versions, as used in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 + through 2.1 and other operating systems, allows local users to + overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files. + +#### po4a +- + [CVE-2007-4462](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4462): + lib/Locale/Po4a/Po.pm in po4a before 0.32 allows local users to + overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the + gettextization.failed.po temporary file. + gettext/po4a rough corners -------------------------- |