Re: dynamic /dev security hole?

[Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>]

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Quoting Eric Lammerts <eric@lammerts.org>:
> Just an idea for a fix for this problem: If udev would change the
> permissions to 000 and ownership to root.root just before it unlinks
> the device node, the copy would become useless.

Like this?
Only compile tested against glibc.


===== udev-remove.c 1.31 vs edited =====
- --- 1.31/udev-remove.c	2004-04-01 04:12:56 +02:00
+++ edited/udev-remove.c	2004-08-09 15:23:12 +02:00
@@ -79,6 +79,23 @@
 	strfieldcat(filename, dev->name);
 
 	info("removing device node '%s'", filename);
+	/* first remove all permissions on the device node.
+	 * This fixes a security issue. If the user created
+	 * a hard-link to the device node, he can't use this
+	 * anymore, if we change permissions.
+	 */
+	retval = chmod(filename, 0000);
+	if (retval) {
+		info("chmod(%s, 0000) failed with error '%s'",
+		     filename, strerror(errno));
+		// we continue nevertheless.
+	}
+	retval = chown(filename, 0, 0);
+	if (retval) {
+		info("chown(%s, 0, 0) failed with error '%s'",
+		     filename, strerror(errno));
+		// we continue nevertheless.
+	}
 	retval = unlink(filename);
 	if (errno == ENOENT)
 		retval = 0;

- -- 
Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]


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