openbsd-ports/lang/python/2.2/patches/patch-Lib_os_py
brad 0da69615f6 Fix security issue with Python 2.1/2.2
Zack Weinberg found a vulnerability in the way the exevpe() method
from the os.py module uses a temporary file name. A file which
supposedly should not exist is created in a unsafe way and the method
tries to execute it. The objective of such code is to discover what
error the operating system returns in a portable way.

By exploiting this vulnerability a local attacker can execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running python code
which uses the execvpe() method.

http://python.org/sf/590294
http://python.org/sf/601077
2002-10-08 02:52:25 +00:00

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$OpenBSD: patch-Lib_os_py,v 1.1 2002/10/08 02:52:25 brad Exp $
--- Lib/os.py.orig Mon Oct 7 22:16:49 2002
+++ Lib/os.py Mon Oct 7 22:16:51 2002
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ def execvp(file, args):
_execvpe(file, args)
def execvpe(file, args, env):
- """execv(file, args, env)
+ """execvpe(file, args, env)
Execute the executable file (which is searched for along $PATH)
with argument list args and environment env , replacing the
@@ -308,8 +308,9 @@ def execvpe(file, args, env):
__all__.extend(["execl","execle","execlp","execlpe","execvp","execvpe"])
-_notfound = None
def _execvpe(file, args, env=None):
+ from errno import ENOENT, ENOTDIR
+
if env is not None:
func = execve
argrest = (args, env)
@@ -317,7 +318,7 @@ def _execvpe(file, args, env=None):
func = execv
argrest = (args,)
env = environ
- global _notfound
+
head, tail = path.split(file)
if head:
apply(func, (file,) + argrest)
@@ -327,30 +328,21 @@ def _execvpe(file, args, env=None):
else:
envpath = defpath
PATH = envpath.split(pathsep)
- if not _notfound:
- if sys.platform[:4] == 'beos':
- # Process handling (fork, wait) under BeOS (up to 5.0)
- # doesn't interoperate reliably with the thread interlocking
- # that happens during an import. The actual error we need
- # is the same on BeOS for posix.open() et al., ENOENT.
- try: unlink('/_#.# ## #.#')
- except error, _notfound: pass
- else:
- import tempfile
- t = tempfile.mktemp()
- # Exec a file that is guaranteed not to exist
- try: execv(t, ('blah',))
- except error, _notfound: pass
- exc, arg = error, _notfound
+ saved_exc = None
+ saved_tb = None
for dir in PATH:
fullname = path.join(dir, file)
try:
apply(func, (fullname,) + argrest)
- except error, (errno, msg):
- if errno != arg[0]:
- exc, arg = error, (errno, msg)
- raise exc, arg
-
+ except error, e:
+ tb = sys.exc_info()[2]
+ if (e.errno != ENOENT and e.errno != ENOTDIR
+ and saved_exc is None):
+ saved_exc = e
+ saved_tb = tb
+ if saved_exc:
+ raise error, saved_exc, saved_tb
+ raise error, e, tb
# Change environ to automatically call putenv() if it exists
try:
@@ -618,3 +610,4 @@ try:
_make_statvfs_result)
except NameError: # statvfs_result may not exist
pass
+