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Message-ID: <20160223164136.GA24225@altlinux.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:41:36 +0300
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Access to /dev/pts devices via pt_chown and user namespaces
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 07:17:54PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:03:54PM +0000, halfdog wrote:
> > Sending content from [0] also to oss-security as requested last time:
>
> Thank you. This public disclosure is very late, though. I didn't
> realize you were still holding some of your findings on this.
>
> > With Ubuntu Wily and earlier, /usr/lib/pt_chown was used to change
> > ownership of slave pts devices in /dev/pts to the same uid holding the
> > master file descriptor for the slave.
>
> I think pt_chown is only needed for legacy BSD pty's, and no longer
> needed for Unix 98 pty's that Linux systems use these days. Perhaps it
> should be dropped from upstream glibc by now.
Just for the record, pt_chown is not enabled by default in upstream glibc
starting with glibc-2.18, one has to specify --enable-pt_chown configure
option explicitly to build pt_chown.
glibc documentation clearly states that "the use of pt_chown introduces
additional security risks to the system and you should enable it only
if you understand and accept those risks":
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Configuring-and-compiling.html#index-grantpt-1
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ldv
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