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Message-ID: <20120524225646.GA4742@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 02:56:46 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: powerdns does not clear supplementary groups
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 06:15:53PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Here is a real life case:
>
> + if ( initgroups(pw->pw_name, NULL) != 0 || setgid(pw->pw_gid) != 0 ||
> + setuid(pw->pw_uid) != 0 )
>
> This is not upstream. This is a patch to drop capabilities by changing uid/gid.
> The person writing the patch intended to do the right thing - but failed. See
> the bug? This is in a network facing daemon that parses untrusted network
> packets.
Wow. The NULL results in group 0 being added to the supplementary
groups list (so it survives the setgid(), at least on my quick test).
How did you spot this? Compiler warning?
"passing arg 2 of `initgroups' makes integer from pointer without a cast"
Alexander
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