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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 09:07:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32958ed4-221d-0e1d-a7ae-317abe952393@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201204095500.7a237277@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de>

On 12/4/20 3:55 AM, tastytea wrote:
> 
>  From what I could gather, opentmpfiles is only vulnerable when an
> attacker is able to put a config file into /etc/tmpfiles.d/, so they
> have to be already root.

The exploit does require an entry in /etc/tmpfiles.d, but many packages 
install perfectly innocent files there that happen to be exploitable 
because opentmpfiles handles them insecurely.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-04 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-04  1:40 [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way Dale
2020-12-04  2:06 ` Kusoneko
2020-12-04  7:44   ` Dale
2020-12-04  2:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  2:22   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  6:44   ` Dale
2020-12-04 14:23     ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04 17:02       ` Dale
2020-12-05 13:43         ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-06  6:40           ` Dale
2020-12-04 10:47   ` Michael
2020-12-04 14:07     ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-04  8:55 ` tastytea
2020-12-04 14:07   ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2020-12-04  9:09 ` antlists
2020-12-04 10:06   ` Dale
2020-12-04 10:24   ` Michael
2020-12-07  4:24   ` Dale
2020-12-07 11:39     ` Wols Lists
2020-12-07 20:32       ` Dale
2020-12-06  7:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 10:45   ` Michael
2020-12-06 12:37     ` Neil Bothwick
2020-12-06 12:53       ` Arve Barsnes
2020-12-06 12:54       ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-06 13:01         ` antlists
2020-12-06 13:45           ` Michael
2020-12-06 15:13             ` Rich Freeman
2020-12-06 16:25     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 12:55   ` antlists
2020-12-06 17:06     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 13:29   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-06 16:57     ` Martin Vaeth
2020-12-06 21:44       ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-12-07 20:41         ` Martin Vaeth

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