From: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@xxxxxxxxx> Create the socket with the right permissions using umask. This also prevents possible symlink exploitation in case socket path is not secure. Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <freddy77@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Uri Lublin <uril@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c b/src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c index dca6980..a2b74bb 100644 --- a/src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c +++ b/src/vdagentd/vdagentd.c @@ -1208,7 +1208,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) /* systemd socket activation not enabled, create our own */ #endif /* WITH_SYSTEMD_SOCKET_ACTIVATION */ { + mode_t mode = umask(0111); udscs_server_listen_to_address(server, vdagentd_socket, &err); + umask(mode); } if (err) { @@ -1219,16 +1221,6 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) return 1; } - /* no need to set permissions on a socket that was provided by systemd */ - if (own_socket) { - if (chmod(vdagentd_socket, 0666)) { - syslog(LOG_CRIT, "Fatal could not change permissions on %s: %m", - vdagentd_socket); - udscs_destroy_server(server); - return 1; - } - } - #ifdef WITH_STATIC_UINPUT uinput = vdagentd_uinput_create(uinput_device, 1024, 768, NULL, 0, debug > 1, uinput_fake); -- 2.26.2 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel