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Make pid-file creation immune to symlink attack.

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Simon Kelley
2012-09-02 13:29:51 +01:00
parent 0c0d4793ac
commit 79cfefd856
1 changed files with 39 additions and 6 deletions
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@@ -383,15 +383,48 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
/* write pidfile _after_ forking ! */
if (daemon->runfile)
{
FILE *pidfile;
int fd, err = 0;
sprintf(daemon->namebuff, "%d\n", (int) getpid());
/* Explanation: Some installations of dnsmasq (eg Debian/Ubuntu) locate the pid-file
in a directory which is writable by the non-privileged user that dnsmasq runs as. This
allows the daemon to delete the file as part of its shutdown. This is a security hole to the
extent that an attacker running as the unprivileged user could replace the pidfile with a
symlink, and have the target of that symlink overwritten as root next time dnsmasq starts.
The folowing code first deletes any existing file, and then opens it with the O_EXCL flag,
ensuring that the open() fails should there be any existing file (because the unlink() failed,
or an attacker exploited the race between unlink() and open()). This ensures that no symlink
attack can succeed.
Any compromise of the non-privileged user still theoretically allows the pid-file to be
replaced whilst dnsmasq is running. The worst that could allow is that the usual
"shutdown dnsmasq" shell command could be tricked into stopping any other process.
Note that if dnsmasq is started as non-root (eg for testing) it silently ignores
failure to write the pid-file.
*/
unlink(daemon->runfile);
/* only complain if started as root */
if ((pidfile = fopen(daemon->runfile, "w")))
if ((fd = open(daemon->runfile, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_EXCL, S_IWUSR|S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IROTH)) == -1)
{
fprintf(pidfile, "%d\n", (int) getpid());
fclose(pidfile);
/* only complain if started as root */
if (getuid() == 0)
err = 1;
}
else if (getuid() == 0)
else
{
if (!read_write(fd, (unsigned char *)daemon->namebuff, strlen(daemon->namebuff), 0))
err = 1;
while (!err && close(fd) == -1)
if (!retry_send())
err = 1;
}
if (err)
{
send_event(err_pipe[1], EVENT_PIDFILE, errno, daemon->runfile);
_exit(0);