Subject: pkg/23229: [SECURITY] x11/aterm 0.4.2 fails to set correct permissions on it's tty
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org>
From: None <tnn@netilium.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/22/2003 13:57:17
>Number: 23229
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: [SECURITY] x11/aterm 0.4.2 fails to set correct permissions on it's tty
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 22 13:58:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Tobias Nygren
>Release: NetBSD 1.6ZD
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD soyokaze 1.6ZD NetBSD 1.6ZD (GENERIC-SOYOKAZE) #0: Sat Oct 18 12:58:44 CEST 2003 root@hitomi:/tmp/soyokaze/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC-SOYOKAZE i386
>Description:
Aterm does not manage it's tty correctly, making insertion
of characters possible. (Even tty snooping?) See below.
>How-To-Repeat:
tnn@soyokaze:~$ aterm
utmp_update: /dev/ttyp2: Is not owned by you
^Z
[1]+ Stopped aterm
tnn@soyokaze:~$ bg
[1]+ aterm &
tnn@soyokaze:~$ ls -l /dev/ttyp2 /dev/ptyp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 6, 2 Oct 22 15:36 /dev/ptyp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 5, 2 Oct 22 15:48 /dev/ttyp2
tnn@soyokaze:~$ w
3:48PM up 3 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.41, 0.25, 0.10
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
tnn E0 - 3:46PM 1 -csh
tnn p1 :0.0 3:46PM 0 w
tnn@soyokaze:~$ ps auxw | grep aterm
tnn 161 0.0 0.5 380 1972 p1 S 3:48PM 0:00.06 aterm
tnn 602 0.0 0.1 168 552 p1 S+ 3:55PM 0:00.00 grep aterm
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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