X2Go Bug report logs - #1429
Tilde expansion no longer performed by libssh after CVE-2019-14889

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Package: x2goclient; Maintainer for x2goclient is X2Go Developers <x2go-dev@lists.x2go.org>; Source for x2goclient is src:x2goclient.

Reported by: Sylvain Cuaz <sylvain@ilm-informatique.fr>

Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:25:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: pending

Merged with 1428

Found in version 4.1.2.1

Fixed in version 4.1.2.2

Done: X2Go Release Manager X2Go Release Manager <git-admin@x2go.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Le 20/12/2019 à 19:06, Mihai Moldovan a écrit :
> Control: reassign -1 x2goclient 4.1.2.1
> Control: forcemerge -1 1428
>
> * On 12/20/19 6:21 PM, Sylvain Cuaz wrote:
>> SSH key fails to be copied to the remote side because the path use a tilde, so neither file sharing nor client-side printing works.
>> [...]
>> After using gdb I saw that ONMainWindow::exportDirs() calls SshMasterConnection::copyFile() with dst="~"+uname +"/.x2go/ssh/"+dst;
>> which is ultimately passed to libssh. But following CVE-2019-14889 the path is now literal (quoted), see
>> https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/log/src/scp.c for the libssh logs and
>> https://usn.ubuntu.com/4219-1/ for the ubuntu packages
> Yes, I think that this change has been intentional. I'll have to fix that in
> X2Go Client and I know how to do this easily to retain support for pre-patched
> and patched versions.
>
> I will, however, probably not be able to provide new release versions with that
> fix (and others) for about a months.
>
> I'll let you know when fixed nightly versions are available, though.

OK thanks

>> As a workaround I reinstalled an old version of the libssh-4 package and the bug went away.
> Please don't do that OR recommend that. You're essentially now running without
> the CVE fix, which is probably worse than a broken client.

Yes, 'workaround' was not the right word. I meant while investigating to confirm my findings.

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