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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 17:51:10 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through
bash (3rd vulnerability)
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:26:05PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 26/09/14 12:12 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 02:06:21PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >>> Tell everyone to stop using setuid/setgid now and forever?
> >
> > Yes!
> >
> >> Minimizing use of setuid/setgid, and making sure the setuid/setgid
> >> things are suitably hardened, is a good idea. However, tools for
> >> controlled privilege escalation (sudo, pkexec, Apache suexec) rely on
> >> setuid in order to work. There's a reason the feature exists at all.
> >
> > These could all be done by having the process with root privileges
> > inherit them from a daemon parent that already has root, rather than
> > requiring the kernel to elevate the privileges of a process via the
> > setuid bit. This inherently eliminates all attacker control of the
> > process's initial state and limits the input/attack surface to the
> > communication channel clients have with the daemon (e.g. a single unix
> > socket).
>
> setuid/setgid is not just for root. For example the Postfix server makes
> use of various groups and setuid/setgid binaries and directories so that
> there are well defined interfaces between Postfix components that run
> with different privilege levels.
But the same could be achieved, with none of the risks of
setuid/setgid, via IPC to a daemon that already has the right
user/group.
Rich
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