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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:27:16 -0600
From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@...o.ws>
To: Ruihan Li <lrh2000@....edu.cn>
cc: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2023-2002: Linux Bluetooth: Unauthorized management command execution
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:41:35 +0800, Ruihan Li wrote:
> I just noticed that sudo added the isatty check a day ago (April 17th)
> [1]. I think this change was inspired by this vulnerability, wasn't it?
> However, as Jakub Wilk pointed out, isatty is still implemented by an
> ioctl call, so the addition of this check has nothing to do with this
> vulnerability. Nevertheless, it is still a good idea to make sure isatty
> succeeds before using ioctl calls with other (perhaps more complex and
> arbitrary) tty commands.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/5650b436e6ba20807758a4154e70
> 9c10c1c87be8
That is correct. There are further changes to use TIOCGWINSZ on
/dev/tty instead of stderr. Using an open fd of /dev/tty makes the
isatty() call superfluous but it doesn't hurt to have it.
- todd
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