From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 4 18:25:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8AE16A4DA for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:25:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B2843D46 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:25:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so3015080pye for ; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=VXnVqi1+aRtKtkl/GR8HZsSuraLub6kianp4HhP8drreDhxQPatq0ecD7YyEE/V7s5l7hk+lcC+2z2bw8A8sCgDFT4nOUgr/jJRalSFCj+i/yPsi3wBjOFG4HQJlVaAIf+l59JTd5hc1rpCVYMg8pJrDeUOX9SRnACrB+IRyyzk= Received: by 10.35.119.11 with SMTP id w11mr10660832pym; Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.105.10 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:25:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:25:09 +0400 From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com To: "Kris Kennaway" In-Reply-To: <20060904175555.GA40371@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060831141924.GA30325@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060901012715.GA64266@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060904165520.GA39206@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060904175555.GA40371@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: bf173e2ffa6f8db3 Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: World-writable files installed by ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:25:11 -0000 On 9/4/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:35:03PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 9/4/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:48:26PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > >> On 9/1/06, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > >> >On 9/1/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >> >> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 10:19:24AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >> >> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 06:15:18PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > >> >> > > Under no circumstances should a port install world-writable > > >> >> > > files or directories. In most cases this opens the system to all > > >> >> > > kinds of attacks. A simple grep brings the following list of > > >> >> > > makefiles to attention. I imagine that samba ports are > > >> >> > > somehow justified, as for the other ones, I hope secteam and > > >> >> > > committers will do something about them. > > >> >> > > > >> >> > The install process will warn about this (as well as group > > >writable), > > >> >> > so you can also grep for the warning message in the pointyhat logs. > > >> >> > > >> >> Here's the list of world-writable from the last i386 6.x build: > > >> > > > >> >Thanks, Kris! I'll be working on patches for some of them > > >> >this weekend. > > >> > > >> Actually... I wonder if maintainers were already notified about > > >> this. I prefer to send out mass mail, wait for a little while and > > >> go fix some of the ports. Generating individual patches is a > > >> bit overstrenuous for me. > > > > > >I haven't notified them. Most of those files are harmless though > > >(score files for games). All of the pips* ones probably have a common > > >source too. > > > > Well, a most innocent world-writable file can bring a > > system down. While that would require a combimation > > of other unfortunate circumstances, I believe an attempt > > to eliminate one factor is not a lost effort. > > > > BTW, I wonder why www/phpmyfaq is not in your list. > > What a+w file does it install? sat@sat64:~> find /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq -perm -a+w /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/inc /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/images /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/attachments /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/data /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/pdf /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/xml sat@sat64:~> find /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq -perm -a+w | xargs ls -ld drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/attachments drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/data drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/images drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 1024 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/inc drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/pdf drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 512 Sep 4 22:19 /usr/local/www/phpmyfaq/xml