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Message-ID: <20120710143040.GA17770@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:30:40 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ecryptfs headsup
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:21:13PM +0200, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>
> It is a potential privilege escalation since the pam module
> was not setting uid/gid(list) appropriately and the suid
> binary did not clear environment before exec'ing umount.
> I do not know whether MS_NOSUID was really needed (and maybe
> MS_NODEV is, but I was not able to create dev files).
> Unfortunally we found ecryptfs not really stable inside the kernel
> and Marcus is still rebooting :)
This means ...
So far we have not yet found a specific security issue.
Ciao, Marcus
> Sebastian
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:07:28AM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
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> > On 07/10/2012 05:33 AM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We made a hardening patch for ecryptfs utils. It is finally ready,
> > > using sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) :)
> > >
> > > I dont know whether a CVE is needed, maybe if you already ship it
> > > suid root (we do not).
> > >
> > > It can be found here:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=740110
> > >
> > > Sebastian
> >
> > Well what is the security vulnerability / trust boundary that can be
> > broken using this issue?
> >
> > - --
> > Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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> --
>
> ~ perl self.pl
> ~ $_='print"\$_=\47$_\47;eval"';eval
> ~ krahmer@...e.de - SuSE Security Team
>
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