For the threaded version we have to set uid,gid per thread instead
of per process. glibc setresuid() when called from a thread, it'll
send a signal to all other threads to synchronize the uid in all
other threads. To bypass this, we have to call syscall() directly.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
index 616082e..fee72c6 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <syscall.h>
#include "gssd.h"
#include "err_util.h"
@@ -457,7 +458,12 @@ change_identity(uid_t uid)
* Switch the GIDs. Note that we leave the saved-set-gid alone in an
* attempt to prevent attacks via ptrace()
*/
- if (setresgid(pw->pw_gid, pw->pw_gid, -1) != 0) {
+ /* For the threaded version we have to set uid,gid per thread instead
+ * of per process. glibc setresuid() when called from a thread, it'll
+ * send a signal to all other threads to synchronize the uid in all
+ * other threads. To bypass this, we have to call syscall() directly.
+ */
+ if (syscall(SYS_setresgid, pw->pw_gid) != 0) {
printerr(0, "WARNING: failed to set gid to %u!\n", pw->pw_gid);
return errno;
}
@@ -466,7 +472,7 @@ change_identity(uid_t uid)
* Switch UIDs, but leave saved-set-uid alone to prevent ptrace() by
* other processes running with this uid.
*/
- if (setresuid(uid, uid, -1) != 0) {
+ if (syscall(SYS_setresuid, uid) != 0) {
printerr(0, "WARNING: Failed to setuid for user with uid %u\n",
uid);
return errno;
--
1.8.3.1
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