-----FW: <200001191905.MAA27712at_private>----- Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:05:24 -0700 (MST) Sender: owner-freebsd-securityat_private From: FreeBSD Security Officer <security-officerat_private> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: FreeBSD Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:01.make -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:01 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: Insecure temporary file handling in make(1) Category: core Module: make Announced: 2000-01-19 Affects: All versions before the correction date. Corrected: 2000-01-16 FreeBSD only: NO Patches: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-00:01/make.patch I. Background The make(1) program is typically used to schedule building of source code. It has a switch ('-j') to allow parallel building by spawning multiple child processes. II. Problem Description The -j option to make(1) uses temporary files in /tmp to communicate with its child processes by storing the shell command the child should execute. This is useful on multi-processor architectures for making use of all of the available CPUs, and is also widely used on uniprocessor systems to minimize the scheduling latency of the build process. However make(1) uses the temporary file in an insecure way, repeatedly deleting and reusing the same file name for the entire life of the program. This makes it vulnerable to a race condition wherein a malicious user could observe the name of the temporary file being used, and replace the contents of a later instance of the file with her desired commands after the legitimate commands have been written. This vulnerability was discovered as part of the FreeBSD Auditing Project, an ongoing effort to identify and correct security vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD operating system. All versions of NetBSD and OpenBSD are also believed to be vulnerable to this problem. Other systems using a BSD-derived make(1) binary may also be vulnerable. III. Impact Local users could execute arbitrary shell commands as part of the build process scheduled by "make -j" by another user. IV. Workaround Avoid using the '-j' flag to make(1). V. Solution Upgrade your system to one that is listed above as having the problem resolved, or patch your present system. To patch your present system: save the patch below into a file, and execute the following commands as root: cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make patch < /path/to/patch/file make all make install Patches for 3.4-STABLE and 4.0-CURRENT systems before the resolution date: Index: job.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/make/job.c,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 job.c --- job.c 1999/09/11 13:08:01 1.16 +++ job.c 2000/01/17 01:42:57 @@ -163,14 +163,6 @@ #define JOB_STOPPED 3 /* The job is stopped */ /* - * tfile is the name of a file into which all shell commands are put. It is - * used over by removing it before the child shell is executed. The XXXXXXXXXX - * in the string are replaced by mkstemp(3). - */ -static char tfile[sizeof(TMPPAT)]; - - -/* * Descriptions for various shells. */ static Shell shells[] = { @@ -993,7 +985,7 @@ /* * If we are aborting and the job table is now empty, we finish. */ - (void) eunlink(tfile); + (void) eunlink(job->tfile); Finish(errors); } } @@ -1668,6 +1660,7 @@ Boolean cmdsOK; /* true if the nodes commands were all right */ Boolean local; /* Set true if the job was run locally */ Boolean noExec; /* Set true if we decide not to run the job */ + int tfd; /* File descriptor for temp file */ if (previous != NULL) { previous->flags &= ~(JOB_FIRST|JOB_IGNERR|JOB_SILENT|JOB_REMOTE); @@ -1697,6 +1690,12 @@ } job->flags |= flags; + (void) strcpy(job->tfile, TMPPAT); + if ((tfd = mkstemp(job->tfile)) == -1) + Punt("cannot create temp file: %s", strerror(errno)); + else + (void) close(tfd); + /* * Check the commands now so any attributes from .DEFAULT have a chance * to migrate to the node @@ -1722,9 +1721,9 @@ DieHorribly(); } - job->cmdFILE = fopen(tfile, "w+"); + job->cmdFILE = fopen(job->tfile, "w+"); if (job->cmdFILE == NULL) { - Punt("Could not open %s", tfile); + Punt("Could not open %s", job->tfile); } (void) fcntl(FILENO(job->cmdFILE), F_SETFD, 1); /* @@ -1830,7 +1829,7 @@ * Unlink and close the command file if we opened one */ if (job->cmdFILE != stdout) { - (void) eunlink(tfile); + (void) eunlink(job->tfile); if (job->cmdFILE != NULL) (void) fclose(job->cmdFILE); } else { @@ -1859,7 +1858,7 @@ } } else { (void) fflush(job->cmdFILE); - (void) eunlink(tfile); + (void) eunlink(job->tfile); } /* @@ -2403,13 +2402,6 @@ * be running at once. */ { GNode *begin; /* node for commands to do at the very start */ - int tfd; - - (void) strcpy(tfile, TMPPAT); - if ((tfd = mkstemp(tfile)) == -1) - Punt("cannot create temp file: %s", strerror(errno)); - else - (void) close(tfd); jobs = Lst_Init(FALSE); stoppedJobs = Lst_Init(FALSE); @@ -2914,7 +2906,7 @@ } } } - (void) eunlink(tfile); + (void) eunlink(job->tfile); } /* @@ -2948,7 +2940,6 @@ } } } - (void) eunlink(tfile); return(errors); } @@ -3024,6 +3015,7 @@ KILL(job->pid, SIGINT); KILL(job->pid, SIGKILL); #endif /* RMT_WANTS_SIGNALS */ + (void) eunlink(job->tfile); } } @@ -3032,7 +3024,6 @@ */ while (waitpid((pid_t) -1, &foo, WNOHANG) > 0) continue; - (void) eunlink(tfile); } #ifdef REMOTE Index: job.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/make/job.h,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -r1.10 job.h --- job.h 1999/08/28 01:03:31 1.10 +++ job.h 2000/01/17 01:42:31 @@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ #define JOB_BUFSIZE 1024 typedef struct Job { int pid; /* The child's process ID */ + char tfile[sizeof(TMPPAT)]; + /* Temporary file to use for job */ GNode *node; /* The target the child is making */ LstNode tailCmds; /* The node of the first command to be * saved when the job has been run */ ============================================================================= FreeBSD, Inc. 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