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Re: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2


From: jsm
Subject: Re: Symlink Vulnerability in GNU libtool <1.5.2
Date: 3 Feb 2004 21:01:50 -0800
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:01:50 -0800

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Stefan Nordhausen wrote:

> Solution:
> Updating to libtool 1.5.2 (the current stable release) will eliminate
> the vulnerability. If you want to stick with your old version of libtool
> you can easily fix this bug yourself. In "ltmain.in" (or file "libtool", 
> whichever applies for you) you should replace the line:
> 
> if $mkdir -p "$tmpdir" && chmod 700 "$tmpdir"; then :
> 
> with
> 
> if $mkdir "$tmpdir" && chmod 700 "$tmpdir"; then :

The chmod has a race (that access to the temporary directory could be
gained after it is created but before it is chmoded) - which I pointed out
when I reported this security bug four years ago
<http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=3438808&list=405> - so is
of limited security value.  Alexandre Oliva's patch at that time
(<address@hidden> on libtool-patches) used umask
to avoid that problem, but wasn't committed (an entirely separate patch
was committed under that log message).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
address@hidden






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