Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202012-5
========================================
Severity: Medium
Date    : 2020-12-05
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-11979
Package : ant
Type    : arbitrary code execution
Remote  : No
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1312

Summary
======
The package ant before version 1.10.9-1 is vulnerable to arbitrary code
execution.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 1.10.9-1.

# pacman -Syu "ant>=1.10.9-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.10.9.

Workaround
=========
The issue can be mitigated by making Ant use a directory that is only
readable and writable by the current user.

Description
==========
As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the
permissions of temporary files it created so that only the current user
was allowed to access them. Unfortunately the fixcrlf task deleted the
temporary file and created a new one without said protection,
effectively nullifying the effort. This would still allow an attacker
to inject modified source files into the build process.

Impact
=====
A local attacker might be able to execute arbitrary code by injecting
modified source files into the build process at the exact right moment.

References
=========
https://lists.apache.org/thread/rc3c8ef9724b5b1e171529b47f4b35cb7920edfb6e917fa21eb6c64ea@%3Cdev.ant.apache.org%3E
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-11979

ArchLinux: 202012-5: ant: arbitrary code execution

December 9, 2020

Summary

As mitigation for CVE-2020-1945 Apache Ant 1.10.8 changed the permissions of temporary files it created so that only the current user was allowed to access them. Unfortunately the fixcrlf task deleted the temporary file and created a new one without said protection, effectively nullifying the effort. This would still allow an attacker to inject modified source files into the build process.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.10.9-1. # pacman -Syu "ant>=1.10.9-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.10.9.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/rc3c8ef9724b5b1e171529b47f4b35cb7920edfb6e917fa21eb6c64ea@%3Cdev.ant.apache.org%3E https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-11979

Severity
Package : ant
Type : arbitrary code execution
Remote : No
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1312

Workaround

The issue can be mitigated by making Ant use a directory that is only readable and writable by the current user.

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