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| author | Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> | 2015-09-23 14:07:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> | 2015-09-24 11:10:36 -0400 |
| commit | 98bb6c91b710a95efe4cfeb303daeec3381b9c98 (patch) | |
| tree | cafda36fc8bb8a753103a9e0dcb9864a15e65f9f /girepository/girepository.c | |
| parent | 6d0d9938e34df351615d644ea3d2fc667fa6a22f (diff) | |
| download | gobject-introspection-98bb6c91b710a95efe4cfeb303daeec3381b9c98.tar.gz | |
libgirepository: Refuse to run in setuid applications
We know of at least one privilege escalation path via
`GI_TYPELIB_PATH`. I don't want to audit for others. If someone
shows up with a use case we can talk.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755472
Diffstat (limited to 'girepository/girepository.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | girepository/girepository.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/girepository/girepository.c b/girepository/girepository.c index 4723c951..97074a8c 100644 --- a/girepository/girepository.c +++ b/girepository/girepository.c @@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ #include <string.h> #include <stdlib.h> +#ifdef HAVE_GETAUXVAL +#include <sys/auxv.h> +#endif + #include <glib.h> #include <glib/gprintf.h> #include <gmodule.h> @@ -147,6 +151,14 @@ init_globals (void) if (!g_once_init_enter (&initialized)) return; +#ifdef HAVE_GETAUXVAL + if (getauxval (AT_SECURE)) + { + g_printerr ("error: libgirepository.so (gobject-introspection) is not audited for use in setuid applications\nSee https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755472\n"); + _exit (1); + } +#endif + if (default_repository == NULL) default_repository = g_object_new (G_TYPE_IREPOSITORY, NULL); |