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Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:58:26 +0200
From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
Cc: 639151@...s.debian.org, Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>,
robert.ancell@...onical.com, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#639151: Bug#639151: Bug#639151: Local
privilege escalation
On ven., 2011-08-26 at 10:43 +0200, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You probably dont take into account the chown() that happens in lightdm.
> Just unlink the created ~/.dmrc or ~/.Xauthority files after creation and make a symlink
> to /etc/passwd to chown it to yourself.
The chown will be applied to the symlink, not the target. I've tried to
make .Xauthority a symlink to a root-owned file and the destination was
indeed destroyed, but it's still root-owned.
> However I didnt dig deep enough into it to write an exploit as I dont have
> a working lightdm setup. The correct behavior is to temporarily drop euid/fsuid
> to that of the user if doing anything with his files.
Yeah, I'm currently cooking patches doing that, though they'll need
review before apply.
>
> The PAM issue that I was curious about was that a pam_start() etc is done
> for the greeter-user (which I expect to be some "lightdm" user)?
Yes
>
> I would expect all pam_ calls are only done for the user who is actually
> about to login. The question that came up to me was whether pam_environment
> from the user would have impact on uid-0 called programs/scripts since
> you transfer the PAM env to the process env.
Yeah, that looks fishy, though I have no idea how it's exactly cooked
that way, we'll have to wait for an answer from Robert.
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
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