Merge pull request #513 from proski/no-setuid

Disable privilege elevation by setuid for the X server
master
metalefty 8 years ago committed by GitHub
commit eec7e39715

@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ fi
PKG_INSTALLDIR
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/prctl.h])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([
common/Makefile
docs/Makefile

@ -29,9 +29,22 @@
*
*/
#if defined(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
#include "config_ac.h"
#endif
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#endif
#include "sesman.h"
#include "libscp_types.h"
#ifndef PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
#define PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS 38
#endif
extern unsigned char g_fixedkey[8];
extern struct config_sesman *g_cfg; /* in sesman.c */
extern int g_sck; /* in sesman.c */
@ -665,6 +678,21 @@ session_start_fork(tbus data, tui8 type, struct SCP_SESSION *s)
if (type == SESMAN_SESSION_TYPE_XORG)
{
#ifdef HAVE_SYS_PRCTL_H
/*
* Make sure Xorg doesn't run setuid root. Root access is not
* needed. Xorg can fail when run as root and the user has no
* console permissions.
* PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS requires Linux kernel 3.5 and newer.
*/
if (prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0) < 0)
{
log_message(LOG_LEVEL_WARNING,
"Failed to disable setuid on X server: %s",
g_get_strerror());
}
#endif
xserver_params = list_create();
xserver_params->auto_free = 1;

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