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Message #15288
[Bug 834079] Re: files written as root to user-controlled folders
Merge proposal sent.
** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu Oneiric)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
** Changed in: lightdm
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
** Changed in: lightdm
Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/834079
Title:
files written as root to user-controlled folders
Status in Light Display Manager:
In Progress
Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric:
Fix Committed
Status in “lightdm” package in Debian:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hey,
as you were on CC: I guess you're already aware, but reporting so it
can be tracked upstream.
Short version: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q3/393
Long version: .dmrc and Xauthority files are written by lightdm
running as root while they're in user controlled folders. An user can,
via a symlink, overwrite root-owned files. It doesn't look like it can
achieve easily privilege-escalation (since the content is quite fixed)
but it's still bad.
Basically the correct fix seems to have workers process which would
setuid() to the user before writing content to those files.
CVE-2011-3349
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