CVS commit: src/libexec/mail.local

["Robert Elz" <kre%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   kre
Date:           Tue May 17 11:18:58 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        src/libexec/mail.local: mail.local.c

Log Message:
fix local privilege escalation due to a race condition

NetBSD-SA2016-006 included an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-6253,
a local privilege escalation vulnerability in mail.local(8).

mail.local(8) attempts to open(2) a user's existing mailbox file
to append to it.  If that call fails, mail.local(8) will then issue
a second open(2) call to create the file (O_CREAT).

An attacker had the opportunity to create the file in question (as
a symlink, or link to some other file) in between these two open(2) calls.

Fix this by using O_EXCL in the 2nd open call, if the file exists when
that one happens, something is going wrong, so just abort.  Also, only
attempt that 2nd open if the reason the first failed was that the file
did not exist (this doesn't fix the issue, but it potentially saves
some cycles).

Thanks to Jan Schaumann for bringing this to our attention.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.28 -r1.29 src/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.c

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