-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: Insufficient check of unsupported pkg(7) signature methods Category: core Module: pkg Announced: 2015-08-25 Credits: Fabian Keil Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2015-08-19 18:32:36 UTC (stable/10, 10.2-STABLE) 2015-08-25 20:48:51 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RC3-p2) 2015-08-25 20:48:51 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p2) 2015-08-25 20:48:58 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p19) 2015-08-19 18:33:25 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE) 2015-08-25 20:49:05 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p24) CVE Name: CVE-2015-5676 For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The pkg(8) utility is the package management tool for FreeBSD. The base system includes a pkg(7) bootstrap utility used to install the latest pkg(8) utility. II. Problem Description When signature_type specified in pkg.conf(5) is set to an unsupported method, the pkg(7) bootstrap utility would behave as if signature_type is set to "none". III. Impact MITM attackers may be able to use this vulnerability and bypass validation, installing their own version of pkg(8). IV. Workaround No workaround is available, but the default FreeBSD configuration is not affected because it uses "fingerprint" method. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 2) To update your present system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install 3) To update your present system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-15:15/pkg.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-15:15/pkg.patch.asc # gpg --verify pkg.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in . VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/9/ r286936 releng/9.3/ r287147 stable/10/ r286935 releng/10.1/ r287146 releng/10.2/ r287145 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this Errata Notice is available at https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:15.pkg.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1.7 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJV3NfOAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnzHwP/30xvOZqHSRYMykrkQKcIVH7 Vhp0lp1z7KaDBq7xD0m08i2WSr0/pSaBU+At141iSKwvCPS0Szx307kZBO9a8gxw j7s6Z15qychKKGukJ5tJtKX4Q3mqAtjBoCC8wmwmJ/YNmr4HrZRL2vFp7nqAiyhl ntTcSuwEElBoalufeMHWd46eguRO/r9D8uWw+O7a+lLeJO9ThjnNZXOPyMfUE3Yh QoFpVcVdf+j6gIGUuPwNsfy4e6hBNvD0T47+PTBECTykiC1eoX+VXqf8PxKKWSOJ 50sKgXOtRy55dMtWbXhu5zjq4jzWFWtBPIRHM5SH/7V898S7zMerh81bsczBUqEA aBu1XJS1fZHlXKlav6/m/G1Wo4QgscBUsV6PhsFNpFmvAdEW2qjnH887FBm7I/Fv a3wvxMmQX1ABPbavFCUZmfS4khLFITYD77XLo8ciu/fyAz/X9n9p1F2EsbL8djis TcTuyUVv3YXeq+gJ9OcOH4CFsYSNlKEYiAd86/9DBnsiVrQJqNzqx+roHjL7ZXg6 AA/pqHmOEBq01idYh7PadOf+B5cU5A1CFMhjfpF1qe1yeuFFM30U7ugxjgV4w85O UFotAbyDlftUzeYYTQv2bK6oXzqtVagkhB/xXfQzPK9E3AnysfHA/bLysop7AMyZ CHeFaGA84VB1k9Ky5nSv =a+Ek -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----