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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:52:21 +0200
From: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: libdbus hardening
Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 10:59 AM, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
>> Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> On 07/17/2012 12:08 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Note that GNU libc will likely change the name to secure_getenv.
>>>> Upstream does not want to document __secure_getenv as-is.
>>>
>>> This will be part of glibc 2.17. autoconf instructions are available here:
>>>
>>> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/secure_getenv>
>>
>> Now the next step would be to make glibc automatically use secure_getenv
>> when running setuid root and require programs to explicitly call
>> insecure_getenv() or something like that :-)
>
> You're welcome to absorb the transition costs. 8-) I looked into this
> briefly, and the potentially insecure getenv calls are not in the
> majority, so we'd have to expect quite a bit of breakage, or at least
> add a configurable whitelist of variable names in a file in /etc.
Potential breakage would only occur in setuid programs that actually use
getenv for valid purposes though. I wonder how many of those actually
exist.
> FWIW, I consider PAM and NSS (Name Service Switch) the major problem
> areas, too. Do you know if the APIs would allow confining plug-ins to
> subprocesses? Then we only have to solve the transparent child
> process problem.
No idea. I'd probably rather implement the setuid binary itself as
client/server program and get rid of setuid in the first place instead
of trying to play tricks in PAM though.
cu
Ludwig
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