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Message-ID: <20180612113836.6flipg4zlq4fw4ue@jwilk.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 13:38:36 +0200
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@...lk.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Are `su user' and/or `sudo -u user sh' considered
dangerous?
* Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>, 2018-06-12, 13:17:
>https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2018/06/12/are_su_user_andor_sudo_-u_user_sh_considered_dangerous/index.html
>
>Per vague memory I discussed half of this with some linux crowd and
>they said "won't fix" long ago.
>
>`su user' and `sudo -u user sh' give the user the fd of root's tty and
>it is readable and writable. After closing the session, the user can
>keep it and on root's tty potentially do:
>
>1. inject keypresses via ioctl()
>and/or
>2. read the output of root's tty, probably with some analogue of
>tee(1).
>
>Is this really a concern?
This class of vulnerabilities has been known since at least 2005:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173008 (CVE-2005-4890)
It was last discussed on oss-security in 2017:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/412
>Any workarounds?
For sudo, there's the "use_pty" flag. (It's not enabled by default.)
--
Jakub Wilk
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