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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 14:31:57 -0700
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Casper.Dik@...cle.com
Subject: Re: Vixie/ISC Cron group crontab to root escalation
On 06/12/17 11:15 AM, Casper.Dik@...cle.com wrote:
>
>> On Jun 9, 6:27pm, solar@...nwall.com (Solar Designer) wrote:
>> -- Subject: Re: [oss-security] Vixie/ISC Cron group crontab to root escalatio
>>
>> | Oh, I did in fact mention this in the private discussion, so I'll quote:
>> |
>> | | Another detail: somehow in Owl we introduced lstat() prior to open, and
>> | | check lstat()'s struct for all the required properties before proceeding
>> | | with open() with O_NOFOLLOW. Then we check that st_dev/st_ino stayed
>> | | the same. We also kept the post-open() checks. I don't recall exactly
>> | | why we added this, but maybe because of the possibility of side-effects
>> | | on open() for hard links to device files (like with tape drives). And
>> | | it looks like we neglected to add the same for at jobs (perhaps didn't
>> | | revisit this when support for at jobs appeared via our update to later
>> | | OpenBSD code) - maybe we should.
>>
>> Thanks, perhaps a comment in the code can't hurt...
>> Or even O_NODEV which does not exist, or O_PATH (linux only)..
>
> As there is a O_DIRECTORY it would be more orthogonal to have O_REGULAR
> (open only a regular file). But that becomes more and more icky as we're
> running out of 32 bits of O_*)
If we're adding flags to open() instead of defining one per file type it
seems like it would be better to define O_MATCH_IFMT to require that the
file's (mode & S_IFMT) match the (mode & S_IFMT) passed in the third
argument to open.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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