CVE-2012-0871: Race Condition
First published: Tue Feb 21 2012(Updated: )
Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team reported that systemd-logind, a part of the systemd service and system manager, did not create certain special files in a secure way. systemd-logind is responsible for managing and tracking user login sessions, and if a user were to log into the X11 desktop, it creates entries in /run/user/[username]/X11, where /run/user/[username] is a user-owned directory. Because systemd-logind does not create the entries in a secure fashion, a malicious user could replace /run/user/[username]/X11 with a symlink to another root-owned directory, such as /etc/pam.d or /etc/cron.d. This would cause a symlink named "display" to be created in the target directory, which is a symlink to a user-owned file (/tmp/.X11-unix/X0). Using further attack vectors and this symlink, the malicious user could obtain a root shell, if he could beat two separate race conditions. Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Systemd Project Systemd | <=037 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =1 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =2 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =3 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =4 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =5 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =6 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =7 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =8 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =9 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =10 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =11 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =12 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =13 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =14 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =15 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =16 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =17 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =18 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =19 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =20 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =21 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =22 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =23 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =24 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =25 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =26 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =27 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =28 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =29 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =30 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =31 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =32 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =33 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =34 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =35 | |
| Systemd Project Systemd | =36 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =12.1 |
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Reference Links
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=fc3c1c6e091ea16ad5600b145201ec535bbb5d7c
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00030.html
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747154
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=799086
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795853
- http://www.osvdb.org/79768
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