Bugzilla – Bug 995726
VUL-1: CVE-2016-7091: sudo: Possible info leak via INPUTRC
Last modified: 2016-11-11 15:23:18 UTC
rh#1339935 It was found that malicious user can leak some information about arbitrary files by providing arbitrary value for INPUTRC, since the target application parses the INPUTRC file with the target user's privileges. This kind of attack is in current version of readline limited to only timing attacks and leaks of line content matching a very particular format, but the next release will feature enhanced error reporting, making the disclosure more dangerous. It is also possible to cause segmentation fault through stack exhaustion in the target application by having INPUTRC specify a file with an $include directive for itself. SUSE SLE-12 and SLE-11, OpenSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed don't include by default INPUTRC in /etc/sudoers. INPUTRC should not be included in "env_keep" at all, or else somehow restricted to non-restricted shells (ie /bin/sh, /bin/bash). Upstream bug: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2016-05/msg00009.html References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1339935 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-7091 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/376
bugbot adjusting priority
As Victor already mentioned, INPUTRC is not part of the default env_keep string in /etc/sudoers in any SUSE product. Therefore changing this bug to VUL-1.
We are not affected by this issue. Closing as invalid.