Security bump. Failure to check the return value of setuid() in a privileged process could be used by a local user for file overwriting and possible privilege escalation in corner cases. See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-June/016146.html for more information.

Package-Manager: portage-2.1.1_pre1-r1

4 files changed, 75 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog b/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog
index 03573ba76c52..70f74fd7b2ee 100644
--- a/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog
+++ b/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # ChangeLog for x11-apps/xload
 # Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
-# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog,v 1.12 2006/05/20 10:46:39 robbat2 Exp $
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-apps/xload/ChangeLog,v 1.13 2006/06/20 16:18:26 spyderous Exp $
+
+*xload-1.0.1-r1 (20 Jun 2006)
+
+  20 Jun 2006; Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>;
+  +files/xload-1.0.1-setuid.diff, -xload-1.0.1.ebuild,
+  +xload-1.0.1-r1.ebuild:
+  Security bump. Failure to check the return value of setuid() in a privileged
+  process could be used by a local user for file overwriting and possible
+  privilege escalation in corner cases. See
+  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-June/016146.html for more
+  information.
 
   20 May 2006; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> xload-1.0.1.ebuild:
   Added ~ppc after testing.
diff --git a/x11-apps/xload/files/digest-xload-1.0.1-r1 b/x11-apps/xload/files/digest-xload-1.0.1-r1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4ac282ada8b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-apps/xload/files/digest-xload-1.0.1-r1
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+MD5 ba013813f9c21eb015559466f8d02a44 xload-1.0.1.tar.bz2 87468
+RMD160 9179267c9ab8eb64f36eccaa55ed7428c944f6c5 xload-1.0.1.tar.bz2 87468
+SHA256 8d51184d6b18eea2f64e0c5b88cd95edff8353ce6529e780f95b1f2347babbf2 xload-1.0.1.tar.bz2 87468
diff --git a/x11-apps/xload/files/xload-1.0.1-setuid.diff b/x11-apps/xload/files/xload-1.0.1-setuid.diff
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..da776c8d1435
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-apps/xload/files/xload-1.0.1-setuid.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Index: xload.c
+===================================================================
+RCS file: /cvs/xorg/app/xload/xload.c,v
+retrieving revision 1.2
+diff -u -r1.2 xload.c
+--- xload.c	23 Apr 2004 19:54:57 -0000	1.2
++++ xload.c	19 Jun 2006 21:32:20 -0000
+@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
+  * xload - display system load average in a window
+  */
+ 
+-
++#include <errno.h>
+ #include <stdio.h> 
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <unistd.h>
+@@ -162,8 +162,17 @@
+     /* For security reasons, we reset our uid/gid after doing the necessary
+        system initialization and before calling any X routines. */
+     InitLoadPoint();
+-    setgid(getgid());		/* reset gid first while still (maybe) root */
+-    setuid(getuid());
++    /* reset gid first while still (maybe) root */
++    if (setgid(getgid()) == -1) {
++	    fprintf(stderr, "%s: setgid failed: %s\n", 
++		ProgramName, strerror(errno));
++	    exit(1);
++    }
++    if (setuid(getuid()) == -1) {
++	    fprintf(stderr, "%s: setuid failed: %s\n", 
++		ProgramName, strerror(errno));
++	    exit(1);
++    }
+ 
+     XtSetLanguageProc(NULL, (XtLanguageProc) NULL, NULL);
+ 
diff --git a/x11-apps/xload/xload-1.0.1-r1.ebuild b/x11-apps/xload/xload-1.0.1-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85d9c5f1717d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-apps/xload/xload-1.0.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2006 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-apps/xload/xload-1.0.1-r1.ebuild,v 1.1 2006/06/20 16:18:26 spyderous Exp $
+
+# Must be before x-modular eclass is inherited
+#SNAPSHOT="yes"
+
+inherit x-modular
+
+DESCRIPTION="X.Org xload application"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="xprint"
+RDEPEND="x11-libs/libXaw"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="$(use_enable xprint)"
+
+PATCHES="${FILESDIR}/${P}-setuid.diff"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	if use xprint && ! built_with_use x11-libs/libXaw xprint; then
+		die "Build x11-libs/libXaw with USE=xprint."
+	fi
+}