Re: [PATCH vd_agent_linux 01/10] vdagentd: Avoid calling chmod

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This entire series has been already reviewed and merged as part of security
audit from SUSE security team.

Note that the classifications are Low/Medium.

Distributions should already have patches/packages.

Regards,
  Frediano Ziglio

> 
> 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);

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