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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2015 19:11:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        mjguzik@gmail.com
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, rpaulo@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r278479 - in head: etc sys/kern
Message-ID:  <201502100311.t1A3BkE0016096@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150210024317.GA21779@dft-labs.eu>

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On 10 Feb, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:13:51PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> +notify 10 {
>> +	match "system"          "kernel";
>> +	match "subsystem"       "signal";
>> +	match "type"            "coredump";
>> +	action "logger $comm $core";
>> +};
>> +
>>  */
>> 
> [..]
>> +	if (vn_fullpath_global(td, p->p_textvp, &fullpath, &freepath) != 0)
>> +		goto out;
>> +	snprintf(data, len, "comm=%s", fullpath);
> 
> I cannot test it right now, but it looks like immediate privilege
> escalation.
> 
> Path is not sanitized in any way and devd passes it to 'sh -c'.
> 
> So a file named "a.out; /bin/id; meh" or so should result in execution
> of aforementioned /bin/id.

Then there is the issue of a user-generated core file being fed into the
crash analyzer, possibly exploiting bugs in the latter.




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