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polkit: Fix CVE-2021-4034
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SyedAmerGilani committed Jan 28, 2022
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From e3b240b89aa40d6b49e27a5137e7df534e7a9ec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Rybar <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:21:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] pkexec: local privilege escalation (CVE-2021-4034)

(cherry picked from commit a2bf5c9c83b6ae46cbd5c779d3055bff81ded683)
---
src/programs/pkcheck.c | 5 +++++
src/programs/pkexec.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/programs/pkcheck.c b/src/programs/pkcheck.c
index f1bb4e1..768525c 100644
--- a/src/programs/pkcheck.c
+++ b/src/programs/pkcheck.c
@@ -363,6 +363,11 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
local_agent_handle = NULL;
ret = 126;

+ if (argc < 1)
+ {
+ exit(126);
+ }
+
/* Disable remote file access from GIO. */
setenv ("GIO_USE_VFS", "local", 1);

diff --git a/src/programs/pkexec.c b/src/programs/pkexec.c
index 7698c5c..84e5ef6 100644
--- a/src/programs/pkexec.c
+++ b/src/programs/pkexec.c
@@ -488,6 +488,15 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
pid_t pid_of_caller;
gpointer local_agent_handle;

+
+ /*
+ * If 'pkexec' is called THIS wrong, someone's probably evil-doing. Don't be nice, just bail out.
+ */
+ if (argc<1)
+ {
+ exit(127);
+ }
+
ret = 127;
authority = NULL;
subject = NULL;
@@ -614,10 +623,10 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])

path = g_strdup (pwstruct.pw_shell);
if (!path)
- {
+ {
g_printerr ("No shell configured or error retrieving pw_shell\n");
goto out;
- }
+ }
/* If you change this, be sure to change the if (!command_line)
case below too */
command_line = g_strdup (path);
@@ -636,7 +645,15 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
goto out;
}
g_free (path);
- argv[n] = path = s;
+ path = s;
+
+ /* argc<2 and pkexec runs just shell, argv is guaranteed to be null-terminated.
+ * /-less shell shouldn't happen, but let's be defensive and don't write to null-termination
+ */
+ if (argv[n] != NULL)
+ {
+ argv[n] = path;
+ }
}
if (access (path, F_OK) != 0)
{
--
2.34.1

1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions meta-oe/recipes-extended/polkit/polkit_0.116.bb
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ PAM_SRC_URI = "file://polkit-1_pam.patch"
SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/releases/polkit-${PV}.tar.gz \
${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', '${PAM_SRC_URI}', '', d)} \
file://0003-make-netgroup-support-optional.patch \
file://0001-pkexec-local-privilege-escalation-CVE-2021-4034.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4b37258583393e83069a0e2e89c0162a"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "88170c9e711e8db305a12fdb8234fac5706c61969b94e084d0f117d8ec5d34b1"
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