CVE-2012-3524: Don't access environment variables or run dbus-launch when setuid

This matches a corresponding change in GLib.  See
glib/gutils.c:g_check_setuid().

Some programs attempt to use libdbus when setuid; notably the X.org
server is shipped in such a configuration. libdbus never had an
explicit policy about its use in setuid programs.

I'm not sure whether we should advertise such support.  However, given
that there are real-world programs that do this currently, we can make
them safer with not too much effort.

Better to fix a problem caused by an interaction between two
components in *both* places if possible.

How to determine whether or not we're running in a privilege-escalated
path is operating system specific.  Note that GTK+'s code to check
euid versus uid worked historically on Unix, more modern systems have
filesystem capabilities and SELinux domain transitions, neither of
which are captured by the uid comparison.

On Linux/glibc, the way this works is that the kernel sets an
AT_SECURE flag in the ELF auxiliary vector, and glibc looks for it on
startup.  If found, then glibc sets a public-but-undocumented
__libc_enable_secure variable which we can use.  Unfortunately, while
it *previously* worked to check this variable, a combination of newer
binutils and RPM break it:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/14/1

So for now on Linux/glibc, we fall back to the historical Unix version
until we get glibc fixed.

On some BSD variants, there is a issetugid() function.  On other Unix
variants, we fall back to what GTK+ has been doing.

Reported-by: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
[backported to 1.2 -smcv]

6 files changed, 81 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index b027f865..28c11de5 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(DBUS_HAVE_ATOMIC_INT_COND, [$have_atomic_inc_cond],
 AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket,[socket network])
 AC_CHECK_FUNC(gethostbyname,,[AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl,gethostbyname)])
 
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep setenv clearenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist fpathconf setrlimit poll)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(vsnprintf vasprintf nanosleep usleep setenv clearenv unsetenv socketpair getgrouplist fpathconf setrlimit poll issetugid getresuid)
 
 #### Check for broken poll; taken from Glib's configure
 
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-keyring.c b/dbus/dbus-keyring.c
index 6dc1e129..0c32a4fd 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-keyring.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-keyring.c
@@ -718,6 +718,13 @@ _dbus_keyring_new_for_credentials (DBusCredentials  *credentials,
   DBusCredentials *our_credentials;
   
   _DBUS_ASSERT_ERROR_IS_CLEAR (error);
+
+  if (_dbus_check_setuid ())
+    {
+      dbus_set_error_const (error, DBUS_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
+                            "Unable to create DBus keyring when setuid");
+      return NULL;
+    }
   
   keyring = NULL;
   error_set = FALSE;
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
index b58d09ab..d4777c59 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
@@ -3124,7 +3124,14 @@ _dbus_get_autolaunch_address (DBusString *address,
   int i;
   DBusString uuid;
   dbus_bool_t retval;
-  
+
+  if (_dbus_check_setuid ())
+    {
+      dbus_set_error_const (error, DBUS_ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED,
+                            "Unable to autolaunch when setuid");
+      return FALSE;
+    }
+
   _DBUS_ASSERT_ERROR_IS_CLEAR (error);
   retval = FALSE;
 
@@ -3510,4 +3517,57 @@ _dbus_get_is_errno_eagain_or_ewouldblock (void)
   return errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK;
 }
 
+/**
+ * **NOTE**: If you modify this function, please also consider making
+ * the corresponding change in GLib.  See
+ * glib/gutils.c:g_check_setuid().
+ *
+ * Returns TRUE if the current process was executed as setuid (or an
+ * equivalent __libc_enable_secure is available).  See:
+ * http://osdir.com/ml/linux.lfs.hardened/2007-04/msg00032.html
+ */
+dbus_bool_t
+_dbus_check_setuid (void)
+{
+  /* TODO: get __libc_enable_secure exported from glibc.
+   * See http://www.openwall.com/lists/owl-dev/2012/08/14/1
+   */
+#if 0 && defined(HAVE_LIBC_ENABLE_SECURE)
+  {
+    /* See glibc/include/unistd.h */
+    extern int __libc_enable_secure;
+    return __libc_enable_secure;
+  }
+#elif defined(HAVE_ISSETUGID)
+  /* BSD: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=issetugid&sektion=2 */
+  return issetugid ();
+#else
+  uid_t ruid, euid, suid; /* Real, effective and saved user ID's */
+  gid_t rgid, egid, sgid; /* Real, effective and saved group ID's */
+
+  static dbus_bool_t check_setuid_initialised;
+  static dbus_bool_t is_setuid;
+
+  if (_DBUS_UNLIKELY (!check_setuid_initialised))
+    {
+#ifdef HAVE_GETRESUID
+      if (getresuid (&ruid, &euid, &suid) != 0 ||
+          getresgid (&rgid, &egid, &sgid) != 0)
+#endif /* HAVE_GETRESUID */
+        {
+          suid = ruid = getuid ();
+          sgid = rgid = getgid ();
+          euid = geteuid ();
+          egid = getegid ();
+        }
+
+      check_setuid_initialised = TRUE;
+      is_setuid = (ruid != euid || ruid != suid ||
+                   rgid != egid || rgid != sgid);
+
+    }
+  return is_setuid;
+#endif
+}
+
 /* tests in dbus-sysdeps-util.c */
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
index 02f31231..15fb5cbc 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-win.c
@@ -3370,6 +3370,12 @@ _dbus_append_keyring_directory_for_credentials (DBusString      *directory,
   return FALSE;
 }
 
+dbus_bool_t
+_dbus_check_setuid (void)
+{
+  return FALSE;
+}
+
 /** @} end of sysdeps-win */
 /* tests in dbus-sysdeps-util.c */
 
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
index ccd80ccd..c3acc178 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ _dbus_setenv (const char *varname,
 const char*
 _dbus_getenv (const char *varname)
 {  
+  /* Don't respect any environment variables if the current process is
+   * setuid.  This is the equivalent of glibc's __secure_getenv().
+   */
+  if (_dbus_check_setuid ())
+    return NULL;
   return getenv (varname);
 }
 
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.h b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.h
index 7817e04f..3c374d23 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.h
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.h
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ typedef struct DBusCredentials DBusCredentials;
 
 void _dbus_abort (void) _DBUS_GNUC_NORETURN;
 
+dbus_bool_t _dbus_check_setuid (void);
 const char* _dbus_getenv (const char *varname);
 dbus_bool_t _dbus_setenv (const char *varname,
 			  const char *value);