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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 16:24:12 +0100
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: nvi denial of service
Instead of applying more and more duct tape on nvi's broken design, you
should stop abusing /var/tmp and store swapfiles in user's home
directory instead; and drop the virecorver script completely.
* coypu@....org, 2017-11-09, 02:32:
> /*
>+ * Since vi creates recovery files only accessible by the user, files
>+ * accessible by group or others are probably malicious so avoid them.
>+ * This is simpler than checking for getuid() == st.st_uid and we want
>+ * to preserve the functionality that root can recover anything which
>+ * means that root should know better and be careful.
>+ */
>+static int
>+checkok(int fd)
>+{
>+ struct stat sb;
>+
>+ return fstat(fd, &sb) != -1 && S_ISREG(sb.st_mode) &&
>+ (sb.st_mode & (S_IRWXG|S_IRWXO)) == 0;
Clever, but racy. Between the open() and fstat() calls, the owner could
change permissions to make this test pass.
>- if ((fp = fopen(dp->d_name, "r+")) == NULL)
>+ if ((fp = fopen(dp->d_name, "r+efl")) == NULL)
These are non-standard modifiers:
"e" opens the file with O_CLOEXEC;
"l" opens the file with O_NOFOLLOW;
"f" opens only regular files.
("e" is available in glibc; the others are not.)
AFAICS, implementation of the "f" modifier in NetBSD is not atomic: it
opens the file, then closes it if it's not a regular file.
>- if ((fd = open(recpath, O_RDWR, 0)) == -1)
>+ if ((fd = open(recpath, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOFOLLOW|O_CLOEXEC,
I believe that even with O_NONBLOCK, opening a non-regular file can have
side effects.
>+for i in $RECDIR/vi.*; do
>+
>+ case "$i" in
>+ $RECDIR/vi.\*) continue;;
>+ esac
(Not related to security, but this check for non-expanded wildcard is
not needed, because the code skips non-existent files later anyway.)
>+for i in $RECDIR/recover.*; do
>+
>+ case "$i" in
>+ $RECDIR/recover.\*) continue;;
>+ esac
(Ditto.)
>+ # Delete any recovery files that are zero length, corrupted,
>+ # or that have no corresponding backup file. Else send mail
>+ # to the user.
>+ recfile=$(awk '/^X-vi-recover-path:/{print $2}' < "$i")
It's still happy to read any file as root. (So it's trivial for a local
user to make the script hang forever.)
>+ if [ -n "$recfile" ] && [ -s "$recfile" ]; then
>+ $SENDMAIL -t < "$i"
It's still happy to send email arbitrary emails (including non-local
recipients) as root.
--
Jakub Wilk
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