Hi All,

Have anyone a idea, how to avoid this security risk and continue to use XFS as my filesystem?
1.26 patch is functional only on ext2/ext3 filesystems, i think..


Tnx

JP

Cathy Sarisky wrote:

Hi All,

RedHat (at least 9, not sure about earlier) is affected by vs1.25 also - although most things work normally, useradd creates a directory with 000 permissions that root is not able to chmod. Can anyone running RH confirm that vs1.26 doesn't have the issue before I build the kernel?

Thanks!
Cathy

p.s Herbert - thank you for the VERY fast response to the vulnerability. :)

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote:



On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:33:14PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:


Hello Folks!

because the last security fix for the chmod()/chroot()
issue was a little too fast, and a little too secure
for some distros (debian was mentioned), this release
restricts the security to the 'important' parts, the
vserver directory.

this is done in the following way:

the chroot() 000 barrier is unaffected and unchanged,
but in addition to that, a barrier with IUNLINK set
can not be changed (chmod()), so the exploit isn't
possible on such a secured system.

What you have to do, after applying that patch?

chmod 000 /vservers
chattr +t -d /vservers


as enrico pointed out, this is crap ;)

chattr +t /vservers

is what I meant, sorry for the confusion

best,
Herbert



all-in-one and broken out patches for 2.4.24 as well
as incremental patches are available at

http://www.13thfloor.at/vserver/s_release/

a temporary fix for the chmod()/chroot() exploit is
to make the vserver directory immutable, but that
will affect vserver creation and destruction in various ways, so an upgrade is advised.


best,
Herbert

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