[Simon Walter] Bug#506353: mailscanner: many scripts allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files, and more, via symlink attacks

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 10 19:16:45 GMT 2008


2008/12/10 Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> My current plan is to use a /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/tmp directory
> which is owned by the "Run As User" and "Run As Group" and only accessible
> by drwx------ so that MailScanner can write to it and root can as well. This
> is already half-implemented as there is a "Lockfile Dir" setting in
> MailScanner.conf. I just need to pass that on the command-line of the
> -autoupdate scripts so they know where to expect and put their lockfiles
> (all the current ones assume Lockfile Dir = /tmp).
>
> After that there's just a few places in TNEF.pm, SA.pm and the "MailScanner
> --lint" code which also need to use the Lockfile Dir directory instead of
> /tmp.
>
> Any reason why this wouldn't work? I can implement all this in about an
> hour's work.
>
> Jules
>
Sounds perfect to me.

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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