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Sec Bug #69353 Missing null byte checks for paths in various PHP extensions
Submitted: 2015-04-02 06:39 UTC Modified: 2016-02-11 12:57 UTC
From: neal at fb dot com Assigned: stas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 5.6.7 OS: N/A
Private report: No CVE-ID: 2015-3411
 [2015-04-02 06:39 UTC] neal at fb dot com
Description:
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Having been inspired by CVE-2014-5120, I did a little digging and found a few more examples of PHP extensions which aren’t checking for null bytes when handling file paths. The exploitability varies a bit depending on what the extension is doing (and of course depends on application code allowing user input to control a partial path that’s supposed to have a particular suffix).

Examples I’ve found are included below (likely non-exhaustive: some of the DB extensions appear to lack checks as well, but I didn’t build PoCs for them)

Test script:
---------------
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('/etc/fonts/fonts.conf' . chr(0) . 'somethingelse.xml’);
echo $doc->saveXML();

<?php
xmlwriter_open_uri('/tmp/thisisatest'. chr(0) . 'foobar.xml’);

<?php
$f=finfo_open(FILEINFO_NONE);
echo finfo_file($f, '/etc/passwd' . chr(0) . 'foobar.txt’);

<?php
var_dump(
  hash_hmac_file('md5', '/etc/passwd', 'secret')
  ===
  hash_hmac_file('md5', '/etc/passwd' . chr(0) . 'foobar', 'secret')
);


Expected result:
----------------
Lots of warnings/errors about null bytes

Actual result:
--------------
Null byte causes truncation in path names, leading the functions to return results.

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 [2015-04-06 05:21 UTC] stas@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas
 [2015-04-14 07:29 UTC] stas@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4435b9142ff9813845d5c97ab29a5d637bedb257
Log: Fixed bug #69353 (Missing null byte checks for paths in various PHP extensions)
 [2015-04-14 07:29 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2015-04-14 08:31 UTC] stas@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4435b9142ff9813845d5c97ab29a5d637bedb257
Log: Fixed bug #69353 (Missing null byte checks for paths in various PHP extensions)
 [2015-04-15 08:43 UTC] jpauli@php.net
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=52b93f0cfd3cba7ff98cc5198df6ca4f23865f80
Log: Fixed bug #69353 (Missing null byte checks for paths in various PHP extensions)
 [2016-02-11 12:57 UTC] kaplan@php.net
-CVE-ID: +CVE-ID: 2015-3411
 [2016-02-11 12:57 UTC] kaplan@php.net
This issue was assigned with CVE-2015-3411 and the fix (which includes extra issues) has CVE-2015-3412 as well.
 
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