[OE-core] [PATCH 1/2] shadow: fix CVE-2017-2616

George McCollister george.mccollister at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 23:36:35 UTC 2017


Apply backported patch that fixes CVE-2017-2616
Sending SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges via su

Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister at gmail.com>
---
 .../files/0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch   | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc            |  1 +
 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch

diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..205a7af054
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/files/0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+From 26d94ff403df048fe4438a97959793610d6e7ea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias at stoeckmann.org>
+Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 09:47:29 -0600
+Subject: [PATCH] su: properly clear child PID
+
+If su is compiled with PAM support, it is possible for any local user
+to send SIGKILL to other processes with root privileges. There are
+only two conditions. First, the user must be able to perform su with
+a successful login. This does NOT have to be the root user, even using
+su with the same id is enough, e.g. "su $(whoami)". Second, SIGKILL
+can only be sent to processes which were executed after the su process.
+It is not possible to send SIGKILL to processes which were already
+running. I consider this as a security vulnerability, because I was
+able to write a proof of concept which unlocked a screen saver of
+another user this way.
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-shadow/shadow.git/plain/debian/patches/301-CVE-2017-2616-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch?h=jessie
+https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/commit/08fd4b69e84364677a10e519ccb25b71710ee686
+
+CVE: CVE-2017-2616
+---
+ src/su.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
+ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/su.c b/src/su.c
+index 3704217..1efcd61 100644
+--- a/src/su.c
++++ b/src/su.c
+@@ -363,20 +363,35 @@ static void prepare_pam_close_session (void)
+ 				/* wake child when resumed */
+ 				kill (pid, SIGCONT);
+ 				stop = false;
++			} else {
++				pid_child = 0;
+ 			}
+ 		} while (!stop);
+ 	}
+ 
+-	if (0 != caught) {
++	if (0 != caught && 0 != pid_child) {
+ 		(void) fputs ("\n", stderr);
+ 		(void) fputs (_("Session terminated, terminating shell..."),
+ 		              stderr);
+ 		(void) kill (-pid_child, caught);
+ 
+ 		(void) signal (SIGALRM, kill_child);
++		(void) signal (SIGCHLD, catch_signals);
+ 		(void) alarm (2);
+ 
+-		(void) wait (&status);
++		sigemptyset (&ourset);
++		if ((sigaddset (&ourset, SIGALRM) != 0)
++		    || (sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &ourset, NULL) != 0)) {
++			fprintf (stderr, _("%s: signal masking malfunction\n"), Prog);
++			kill_child (0);
++		} else {
++			while (0 == waitpid (pid_child, &status, WNOHANG)) {
++				sigsuspend (&ourset);
++			}
++			pid_child = 0;
++			(void) sigprocmask (SIG_UNBLOCK, &ourset, NULL);
++		}
++
+ 		(void) fputs (_(" ...terminated.\n"), stderr);
+ 	}
+ 
+-- 
+2.15.0
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
index cc189649b2..031e880630 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/shadow/shadow.inc
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://pkg-shadow.alioth.debian.org/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
            file://check_size_of_uid_t_and_gid_t_using_AC_CHECK_SIZEOF.patch \
            file://0001-useradd-copy-extended-attributes-of-home.patch \
            file://0001-shadow-CVE-2017-12424 \
+           file://0001-su-properly-clear-child-PID.patch \
            ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)} \
            "
 
-- 
2.15.0




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