[Another compression utility with the same race condition issue as bzip2 (CAN-2005-0953), gzip (CAN-2005-0988) and cpio (CAN-2005-1111) - the file is extracted and file descriptor closed before the file is chmod'ed] ================================ unzip TOCTOU file-permissions vulnerability ================================ Software: unzip Version: 5.52 Software URL: <http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html> Platform: Unix, Linux. Vulnerability type: Time-of-Check-Time-Of-Use Severity: Low, local user, badly set permissions. Vulnerable software ==================== unzip 5.52 and previous versions running on unix. Vulnerability ============== If a malicious local user has write access to a directory in which a target user is using unzip to extract a file to then a TOCTOU bug can be exploited to change the permission of any file belonging to that user. On decompressing unzip copies the permissions from the compressed file to the uncompressed file. However there is a gap between the uncompressed file being written (and it's file handler being close) and the permissions of the file being changed. During this gap a malicious user can remove the decompressed file and replace it with a hard-link to another file belonging to the user. unzip will then change the permissions on the hard-linked file to be the same as that of the compressed file. The vulnerable line of code can be found on line 1160 of the file unix.c where chmod is used (rather than fchmod). unzip also use's chmod in a number of other places which may also be vulnerable to exploitation. Workaround ======== Ensure that any directory which is being used by unzip to decompress files is only writeable by the user or alternatively set the sticky bit on the directory's permissions. --- Imran Ghory
