Re: [PATCH 07/10] sulogin: reduce vulnerability surface

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On 24 April 2017 at 13:24, Petr Vorel <petr.vorel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hopefully these changes are unreachable code, but better safe than sorry
>> when dealing with setuid root code that is installed everywhere.  Quite
>> obviously the introduced abort() calls protect from impossible inputs.
>
>> Secondly set all possible data to be read-only in attempt to make it more
>> difficult to alter anything at all.
>
>> Reference: https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/DCL00-C.+Const-qualify+immutable+objects
>> Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  login-utils/su-common.c        | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>  login-utils/sulogin-consoles.c | 20 ++++++++--------
>>  login-utils/sulogin.c          | 39 ++++++++++++-------------------
>>  3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>
>> diff --git a/login-utils/su-common.c b/login-utils/su-common.c
>> index 41f2b1cea..08f327c50 100644
>> --- a/login-utils/su-common.c
>> +++ b/login-utils/su-common.c
> <snip>
>> -  int retval;
>> +  const int retval = pam_open_session (pamh, 0);;
>                                                   ^
>                                                                                                   double semicolon.

Thank you Petr, fixed and attributed.

https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/commit/c12bebe9cfe3396b9af7110e80b07103514dfe91

p.s. Karel the ioctl() &mode is fixed as well.

-- 
Sami Kerola
http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
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