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Title:
  Snap policy module fails to identify snaps if SCM_CREDENTIALS are
  missing from PA_COMMAND_AUTH request

Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This bug was discovered while debugging the non-deterministic
  behaviour of the example program attached to bug 1886854.

  The snap policy module currently uses the credentials passed in an
  SCM_CREDENTIALS control message attached to the PA_COMMAND_AUTH
  request sent by the client.  Credentials will only be attached to the
  message if at least one end of the connection has set the SO_PASSCRED
  socket option.

  In normal operation, both the client and server set SO_PASSCRED on
  their sockets, so this functions normally.  The test program on the
  other bug used an alternative client library that didn't set
  SO_PASSCRED, which leads to a race between the client sending the
  PA_COMMAND_AUTH request and the server calling setsockopt().

  If the client wins, the server will receive a message with an empty
  SCM_CREDENTIALS control message (pid=0, uid=65534, gid=65534).  When
  the snap policy module gets these empty credentials, it would try to
  look up the confinement of pid 0.  As there is no such process, the
  module decides that the client is not a snap.

  As any lookup via process ID is inherently racy, a better solution
  would be to use aa_getpeercon() to retrieve the client's security
  label in pa_native_protocol_connect(), and store it in the pa_client
  struct.  We can then look up this in the policy module when it comes
  time to do the check.

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