Re: Forward: Bug#138975: hotplug: /tmp symlink vulnerability

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

At Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:51:17 -0800,
David Brownell wrote:
 
> Looks right to me, except that some other agent
> scripts had the same general need for writable /tmp
> so maybe a more generic fix, done once, would be]
> a better way to go.

I committed this patch.
But I can't find any reason why this check is in ieee1394.agent only.
Which part of ieee1394.agent requires /tmp is writable?
Doesn't other agent need to check as well?

Regards,
Fumitoshi UKAI
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fumitoshi UKAI" <ukai@debian.or.jp>
> To: <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:39 PM
> Subject: Forward: Bug#138975: hotplug: /tmp symlink vulnerability
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I received the following bug report.
> > It actually create any files on tye system by dangling symlinking
> > in /tmp/test.<number> (touch follows symlinks).
> > 
> > Anyway as report said, I think it's better to touch /tmp itself
> > instead of touch /tmp/test.$$ and remove it.  
> > If directory is writable, touch the directory will be success, otherwise
> > touch will be failed. 
> > 
> > How about this ?
> > 
> > Index: etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent
> > =================================> > RCS file: /cvsroot/linux-hotplug/admin/etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent,v
> > retrieving revision 1.3
> > diff -u -u -r1.3 ieee1394.agent
> > --- etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent 4 Jan 2002 18:39:49 -0000 1.3
> > +++ etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent 19 Mar 2002 01:36:56 -0000
> > @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@
> >  
> >  # if called too early in booting, things break
> >  # (bash creates tempfiles)
> > -if touch /tmp/test.$$ >/dev/null 2>&1
> > +if touch /tmp >/dev/null 2>&1
> >  then
> > - rm -f /tmp/test.$$
> > + : ok
> >  else
> >   mesg Need writable /tmp ...
> >   exit 1
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Fumitoshi UKAI
> > 
> > 
> 
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