From owner-freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Wed Aug 26 04:10:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B179C21A6 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6228BD for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id t7Q4ArNS069975 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:10:53 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 202664] mergemaster as unprivileged user dumps master.passwd into /var/tmp/temproot Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:10:53 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: bin X-Bugzilla-Version: 10.2-STABLE X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: chris@bsdjunk.com X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 04:10:53 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202664 Chris Petrik changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |chris@bsdjunk.com --- Comment #1 from Chris Petrik --- I think it uses /usr/src/etc/* as base and then it diffs all that to the system etc, not the actual one installed in /etc/ so I don't think there's any threat. if you have a look at /usr/src/etc/ you will see a generic master.passwd which should be the same one youre looking at. a normal user has no access to /etc/master.passwd -rw------- 1 root wheel 2612 Aug 24 03:06 /etc/master.passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1640 Aug 18 12:26 /usr/src/etc/master.passwd -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.