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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:31:00 +0200
From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ensium.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: buildroot@...ldroot.org
Subject: Buildroot: incorrect permissons on /dev/shm
Buildroot is a Linux distribution and system builder for embedded
systems. Starting in Buildroot 2011.08, its default /etc/fstab
included an entry for /dev/shm with incorrect permissons (sticky bit
not set). (CWE-276)
Buildroot 2017.08 removed this entry for systems using systemd, and it
has never been included for systems using OpenRC. So this only
affects Buildroot-built systems that use sysvinit, and some older
systems that use systemd.
Ben.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:20:16PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> /dev/shm is a world-writable directory, like /tmp, and should also
> have the sticky bit set. Without this, any user can delete and
> replace another user's files in /dev/shm.
>
> This bug has been present since /dev/shm was added to the skeleton
> /etc/fstab, but appears to have been fixed for systems using systemd
> by commit 76fc9275f14e "system: separate sysv and systemd parts of the
> skeleton" which went into Buildroot 2017.08.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...d.be>
> Fixes: 22fde22e35f98f7830c2f8955465532328348cd1
> ---
> package/skeleton-init-sysv/skeleton/etc/fstab | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/package/skeleton-init-sysv/skeleton/etc/fstab b/package/skeleton-init-sysv/skeleton/etc/fstab
> index 169054b74f..06c20fe9d5 100644
> --- a/package/skeleton-init-sysv/skeleton/etc/fstab
> +++ b/package/skeleton-init-sysv/skeleton/etc/fstab
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> /dev/root / ext2 rw,noauto 0 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=0666 0 0
> -tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs mode=0777 0 0
> +tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs mode=1777 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs mode=1777 0 0
> tmpfs /run tmpfs mode=0755,nosuid,nodev 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> --
> 2.39.2
>
--
Ben Hutchings · Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Essensium-Mind · mind.be
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