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authorGravatar Federico Mena Quintero2013-07-02 13:38:36 -0500
committerGravatar Federico Mena Quintero2013-07-02 20:31:45 -0500
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Bug #331 - Don't create a /tmp/root directory insecurely
When finding the user's home directory to generate a subdirectory in $HOME/.config, we would fall back to /tmp if there were no environment variables for HOME or XDG_CONFIG_HOME. Since libimobiledevice gets used by upower, and since upowerd runs as root, this would cause a /tmp/root directory to be created insecurely, leaving upowerd vulnerable to a symlink attack. Now we fall back to getpwuid_r() to find the user's home directory if it is not provided in environment variables - this is the case when upowerd gets run via systemd, for example. The result is that we'll end up creating /root/.config, a safe directory, since regular users cannot create symlinks in /root. In the future we'll need a way for libimobiledevice to find where to store its pairing data on behalf of the console user, rather than writing it to /root. http://libiphone.lighthouseapp.com/projects/27916-libiphone/tickets/331-insecure-tmp-directory-use
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