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Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash
From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso () google com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:42:32 -0700
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles () stack nl> wrote:
I think there is no reason to deviate from other shells here. Therefore, please call it "privileged".
Agreed.
In bash and FBSD, after starting with -p, set +p can be used to drop privileges. With your patch, dash accepts set +p, but silently ignores it.How does something like the attached, to be applied on top of your patch, look?[snip] + if (!on && (uid != geteuid() || gid != getegid())) { + setuid(uid); + setgid(gid); + /* PS1 might need to be changed accordingly. */ + choose_ps1(); + } +}This code tries to use setuid() and setgid() to drop all privilege, which is only correct if the privilege to be dropped is UID 0, or on BSD systems. It would be better to use setresuid() or setreuid(), and change the GID before changing the UID.
This is logic duplicated from pdksh and bash, I'm slightly reluctant to do things differently, unless it's not going to get committed otherwise. You can see some code snippets here: http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
Apart from that, it is better to check the return value from setuid() and similar functions. In particular, some versions of Linux may fail setuid() for [EAGAIN], leaving the process running with the same privileges.
I don't think this is true anymore, but I have no strong objection to adding it, so long as it's noted that bash and pdksh do not do this. Tavis.
Current thread:
- [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Tavis Ormandy (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Simon McVittie (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Tavis Ormandy (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Ludwig Nussel (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Harald van Dijk (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Tavis Ormandy (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Jilles Tjoelker (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Tavis Ormandy (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Roy (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Simon McVittie (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Seth Arnold (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Michael Samuel (Aug 22)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Tavis Ormandy (Aug 23)
- Re: [PATCH] implement privmode support in dash Florian Weimer (Aug 23)