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| * | crontab: split into crontab and setuid helper crontab-access....If a user did somehow manage to install this crontab as functioning
setuid-root in its current state (despite linux ignoring the setuid bit when
executing scripts), it would be a very bad thing for them. It currently has
several glaring security holes. In approximate order from most to least
severe:
1. It blindly calls system() with the user-supplied value of VISUAL or
EDITOR, without dropping privileges. I can't fathom what the author was
thinking, considering (mcron scripts crontab) is littered with comments and
evidence that this is supposed to be a setuid-root program. An attacker
could simply run
EDITOR='sh #' crontab -e
and get a root shell. If you try this, you may find that it coincidentally
doesn't work because bash in particular always drops privileges on startup
if it detects differing real and effective ids. I don't know whether other
shells do this, but it actually doesn't matter as long as you're using
glibc, because its system() consults PATH looking for sh. One false entry
in there and an attacker is running arbitrary code as root. And crontab
doesn't do any sanitizing of *any* environment variables.
2. No attempt is made to sanitize any environment variables. Also, depending
on Guile's startup behavior, trying to sanitize them in guile may be too
late. A wrapper is needed, which would be needed anyway in order to use a
setuid script.
3. No attempt is made to ensure that the temporary file being edited is
newly-created, so an attacker could guess or deduce the filename to be
used, create it in advance, keep it open while crontab opens it, and
overwrite it right before it is copied, allowing them to execute arbitrary
code as any user that dared edit their crontab, including root.
4. Its replace mode accepts a filename. It does no validation whatsoever on
this, opens it, and copies it to the user's crontab as long as it's valid
vixie cron syntax. So for example,
crontab /var/cron/tabs/root && crontab --list
will let you freely read root's (and in a similar manner any other user's)
crontab. Vixie cron includes comments in its valid syntax, so any file that
consists entirely of comments can also be dumped. Also, any file for which
opening it and reading from it has side-effects can have those side-effects
triggered even if it isn't valid vixie cron syntax.
5. Crontabs created in /tmp for editing, as well as crontabs created in
/var/cron/tabs, are world-readable with typical inherited umask.
(1) and (4) are resolved by splitting crontab into two programs: crontab,
which is no longer setuid, and crontab-access, which is. The setuid program no
longer opens any files except for the user's crontab and the allow/deny files,
and it runs no external programs whatsoever. Crontab is run as the invoking
user, so the usual kernel-level permissions checks regarding which files can
be opened for reading apply. The editor is run from crontab, as the invoking
user, so sanitizing of the environment in the setuid helper has no effect on
the editor's environment.
(2) to be resolved shortly with a wrapper program.
(3) is resolved by using mkstemp. The inability to control the mode it is
created with, along with (5), are resolved by setting the umask properly.
* src/mcron/scripts/crontab-access.scm: new module.
* src/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm: move list, delete, and replace
implementation to crontab-access.
* src/crontab-access.in: new file to invoke main of crontab-access.
* Makefile.am: inform of crontab-access.in and crontab-access.scm.
| ulfvonbelow | 2023-03-18 | 1 | -143/+112 |
| * | Using proposed new Guile command-line-processor....This is a pre-emptive delta which will make use of new facilities
in a future Guile for command-line option processing---a fuller
description will appear with later patches.
* src/{cron,crontab,mcron}.in: use new facility
* src/mcron/scripts/{cron,crontab,mcron}.scm: remove old option-scanning code
| Dale Mellor | 2022-07-07 | 1 | -77/+48 |
| * | project: banish need for C compiler...This patch gets rid of the thin veneer that we currently have around the three
executables. This was done for historical reasons (circa 2003 Guile couldnʼt
deal with process signals and forks). In fact these problems were fixed many
moons ago, and there is now no need for it. The project becomes 100% Guile!
Many files are affected; interested coders should use the GIT repository to
understand the details of all the changes.
| Dale Mellor | 2020-04-20 | 1 | -2/+2 |
| * | utils: Remove 'parse-args'...It seems that it is not useful to catch 'misc-error exception when
calling 'getopt-long'. Since 'parse-args' purpose was only to catch
this particular error, it can be deleted.
* src/mcron/utils.scm (parse-args): Remove.
| Mathieu Lirzin | 2018-03-27 | 1 | -1/+2 |
| * | crontab: Extract procedures from 'main'...* src/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm (in-access-file?)
(hit-server): New procedures.
| Mathieu Lirzin | 2018-03-16 | 1 | -35/+34 |
| * | utils: Remove unneeded 'stdin->string' procedure....* src/mcron/utils.scm: Re-export 'read-string'.
(stdin->string): Delete.
* src/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm (main): Use 'read-string' instead.
* src/mcron/scripts/mcron.scm (process-user-file): Likewise.
| Mathieu Lirzin | 2016-12-28 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | build: Rename (mcron main) to (mcron utils)....* src/mcron/main.scm: Rename to ...
* src/mcron/utils.scm: ... this.
* src/mcron/scripts/cron.scm: Adapt.
* src/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm: Likewise.
* src/mcron/scripts/mcron.scm: Likewise.
* Makefile.am (dist_mcronmodule_DATA): Likewise.
| Mathieu Lirzin | 2016-12-28 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | all: Separate programs in different executables....This improves readability and complies with the GNU Coding Standards by
making the behavior of the programs independent of the name used to
invoke them.
* src/mcron/scripts/cron.scm: New file.
* src/mcron/scripts/crontab.scm: Likewise.
* src/mcron/scripts/mcron.scm: Likewise.
* Makefile.am (dist_mcronmodule_DATA): Remove 'src/mcron/crontab.scm'.
(bin_PROGRAMS): Add 'crontab'.
(sbin_PROGRAMS): Add 'cron'.
(mcron_CFLAGS, mcron_LDADD): Rename to ...
(AM_CFLAGS, LDADD): ... these.
(cron_SOURCES, cron_CPPFLAGS, cron_DEPENDENCIES)
(crontab_SOURCES, crontab_CPPFLAGS, crontab_DEPENDENCIES)
(mcron_CPPFLAGS, mcronscriptdir, dist_mcronscript_DATA): New variables.
(modules): Redefine it in terms of other '_DATA' variables.
* src/mcron/crontab.scm: Remove file.
* src/mcron/main.scm (parse-args): New procedure.
(command-name, command-type, options): Remove.
(show-version): Adapt.
(show-help, process-files-in-system-directory, cron-file-descriptors)
(main, process-user-file, process-files-in-user-directory): Move
procedures in the new files.
* src/mcron.c (inner_main): Define the current module at compile time.
* TODO: Update.
* .gitignore: Likewise.
| Mathieu Lirzin | 2016-12-01 | 1 | -0/+225 |
