[DSE-Dev] [libsemanage] Also check for the uppoer bound on user ids in /etc/login.defs

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Jan 6 16:50:00 UTC 2009


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Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06 2009, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> 
>> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 05 2009, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>>> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>>>> From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Some non-Debian packages (like qmail, shudder) create users not below
>>>>> MIN_UID, but above MAX_UID, in /etc/login.defs (non-system users are
>>>>> supposed to have uids between MIN_UID and MAX_UID.
>>>>>
>>>>> genhomedircon.c:gethomedirs() checks pwent.pw_uid against MIN_UID in
>>>>> /etc/login.defs to exclude system users from generating homedir
>>>>> contexts. But unfortunately it does not check it against MAX_UID
>>>>> setting from the same file.
>>>>>
>>>>> This gets us lines like the following in the
>>>>> contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs file:
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----
>>>>> |  #
>>>>> |  # Home Context for user user_u
>>>>> |  #
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/.+     user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/\.ssh(/.*)?    user_u:object_r:user_home_ssh_t:s0
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*/\.gnupg(/.+)?  user_u:object_r:user_gpg_secret_t:s0
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/[^/]*        -d      user_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/lost\+found/.*       <<none>>
>>>>> |  /var/qmail      -d      system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/\.journal    <<none>>
>>>>> |  /var/qmail/lost\+found  -d      system_u:object_r:lost_found_t:s0
>>>>> |  /tmp/gconfd-.*  -d      user_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> This commit adds checking uid value againt MAX_UID too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  src/genhomedircon.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>>>>>  1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/src/genhomedircon.c b/src/genhomedircon.c
>>>>> index ce15807..a5306d7 100644
>>>>> --- a/src/genhomedircon.c
>>>>> +++ b/src/genhomedircon.c
>>>>> @@ -219,8 +219,8 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
>>>>>  	char *rbuf = NULL;
>>>>>  	char *path = NULL;
>>>>>  	long rbuflen;
>>>>> -	uid_t temp, minuid = 0;
>>>>> -	int minuid_set = 0;
>>>>> +	uid_t temp, minuid = 0, maxuid = 0;
>>>>> +	int minuid_set = 0, maxuid_set = 0;
>>>>>  	struct passwd pwstorage, *pwbuf;
>>>>>  	struct stat buf;
>>>>>  	int retval;
>>>>> @@ -270,6 +270,16 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
>>>>>  	}
>>>>>  	free(path);
>>>>>  	path = NULL;
>>>>> +	path = semanage_findval(PATH_ETC_LOGIN_DEFS, "UID_MAX", NULL);
>>>>> +	if (path && *path) {
>>>>> +		temp = atoi(path);
>>>>> +		if (!maxuid_set || temp > maxuid) {
>>>>> +			maxuid = temp;
>>>>> +			maxuid_set = 1;
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +	}
>>>>> +	free(path);
>>>>> +	path = NULL;
>>>>>  
>>>>>  	path = semanage_findval(PATH_ETC_LIBUSER, "LU_UIDNUMBER", "=");
>>>>>  	if (path && *path) {
>>>>> @@ -286,6 +296,10 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
>>>>>  		minuid = 500;
>>>>>  		minuid_set = 1;
>>>>>  	}
>>>>> +	if (!maxuid_set) {
>>>>> +		maxuid = 60000;
>>>>> +		maxuid_set = 1;
>>>>> +	}
>>>>>  
>>>>>  	rbuflen = sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX);
>>>>>  	if (rbuflen <= 0)
>>>>> @@ -295,7 +309,7 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
>>>>>  		goto fail;
>>>>>  	setpwent();
>>>>>  	while ((retval = getpwent_r(&pwstorage, rbuf, rbuflen, &pwbuf)) == 0) {
>>>>> -		if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid)
>>>>> +		if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid || pwbuf->pw_uid > maxuid)
>>>>>  			continue;
>>>>>  		if (!semanage_list_find(shells, pwbuf->pw_shell))
>>>>>  			continue;
>>>>> @@ -322,7 +336,7 @@ static semanage_list_t *get_home_dirs(genhomedircon_settings_t * s)
>>>>>  
>>>>>  			/* NOTE: old genhomedircon printed a warning on match */
>>>>>  			if (hand.matched) {
>>>>> -				WARN(s->h_semanage, "%s homedir %s or its parent directory conflicts with a file context already specified in the policy.  This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account.  If it is a system account please make sure its uid is less than %u or its login shell is /sbin/nologin.", pwbuf->pw_name, pwbuf->pw_dir, minuid);
>>>>> +			  WARN(s->h_semanage, "%s homedir %s or its parent directory conflicts with a file context already specified in the policy.  This usually indicates an incorrectly defined system account.  If it is a system account please make sure its uid is less than %u or greater than %u or its login shell is /sbin/nologin.", pwbuf->pw_name, pwbuf->pw_dir, minuid, maxuid);
>>>>>  			} else {
>>>>>  				if (semanage_list_push(&homedir_list, path))
>>>>>  					goto fail;
>>>> I think the default MAX_UID is not big enough.
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't it be MAXINT?
>>>         Not unless I am misunderstanding the logic here. The way I see
>>>  it, the code below:
>>> ,----
>>> | while ((retval = getpwent_r(&pwstorage, rbuf, rbuflen, &pwbuf)) == 0) {
>>> |         if (pwbuf->pw_uid < minuid || pwbuf->pw_uid > maxuid)
>>> |                 continue;
>>> |         if (!semanage_list_find(shells, pwbuf->pw_shell))
>>> |                 continue;
>>> |         if (strcmp(pwbuf->pw_dir, "/") == 0)
>>> |                 continue;
>>> |         if (semanage_str_count(pwbuf->pw_dir, '/') <= 1)
>>> |                 continue;
>>> |         if (!(path = strdup(pwbuf->pw_dir))) {
>>> |                 break;
>>> |         }
>>> |    /* DO STUFF HERE */
>>> | }
>>> `----
>>>
>>>         Does nothing iff: pw_uid < minuid || pw_uid > maxuid, so it
>>>  only does things if the UID is in the range legal for non-system users;
>>>  and the UID range for system users is UID_MIN < uid < UID_MAX.
>>>
>>>         If you change the upper bound to max int, then we will create
>>>  the entries for UIDs in the range above 60000 -- which is where the
>>>  bletcherous qmail install script places the qmail uid.
>>>
>>>         The current behaviour, but not checking the upper bound of the
>>>  acceptable user range would be equivalent to the raising the upper
>>>  bound to INT_MAX; and indeed, would make this patch redundant.
>>>
>>>         From login.defs(5):
>>> ,----
>>> |        UID_MAX (number), UID_MIN (number)
>>> |            Range of user IDs used for the creation of regular users by
>>> |            useradd or newusers.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>         Therefore I think that the right thing to do would be to check
>>>  for both the upper and the lower bound, not just the lower bound
>>>  check, which is all we do now.
>>>
>>>         manoj
>> my point being, if I have a legitimate UID > 60000 for a real user and
>> do not define UID_MAX, My account will not work.
>>
>> I do not have a problem with checking UID_MAX, just that the default
>> should be much higer then 60000.
> 
>         I just went with the Debian policy default value; 60000 is the
>  upper limit of uid's on Debian (and probably most Debian derivative)
>  machines, and UID's lager than that are reserved by policy for Debian
>  packages to use (after discussion on the development mailing lists).
> 
>         Having said that, I have no objection to making the default max
>  uid a preprocessor constant, which can be tweaked by the
>  distributions. Should I send in an updated patch?
> 
>         manoj
Well that does not really solve my problem since UID_MAX is defined in
the file as 60000, it will still stop looking there.




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