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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-01-18 09:13:52 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2019-01-25 12:38:22 +0100
commit89dca2f0fbfe07bca50e7f2a43c88e2c17d763b5 (patch)
tree0942bc1a41549bebbe0c8e56035949d960a1da79 /apt-pkg
parent49383c24a8eeab8483b10d883f91d96633e2da76 (diff)
SECURITY UPDATE: content injection in http method (CVE-2019-3462)
This fixes a security issue that can be exploited to inject arbritrary debs or other files into a signed repository as followed: (1) Server sends a redirect to somewhere%0a<headers for the apt method> (where %0a is \n encoded) (2) apt method decodes the redirect (because the method encodes the URLs before sending them out), writting something like somewhere\n <headers> into its output (3) apt then uses the headers injected for validation purposes. Regression-Of: c34ea12ad509cb34c954ed574a301c3cbede55ec LP: #1812353
Diffstat (limited to 'apt-pkg')
-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc b/apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc
index 8934d87a0..834137ae4 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/acquire-method.cc
@@ -471,6 +471,12 @@ void pkgAcqMethod::Status(const char *Format,...)
* the worker will enqueue again later on to the right queue */
void pkgAcqMethod::Redirect(const string &NewURI)
{
+ if (NewURI.find_first_not_of(" !\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~") != std::string::npos)
+ {
+ _error->Error("SECURITY: URL redirect target contains control characters, rejecting.");
+ Fail();
+ return;
+ }
std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> fields;
try_emplace(fields, "URI", Queue->Uri);
try_emplace(fields, "New-URI", NewURI);