centos 6
tmpfile weakness #62

Weakness Breakdown

Definition:

A temporary file weakness occurs when a temporary file that is created and used by a high-privilege process is accidentally shared with a low-privilege process, on account of it being temporary and generated after all security controls have been applied. This allows the low-privilege process to read data from the high-privilege process (information leakage), or worse, influence the high-privilege process by modifying the shared temporary file.

Warning code(s):

Temporary file race condition.

File Name:

glibc-2.12-2-gc4ccff1/nptl/tst-cancel4.c

Context:

The highlighted line of code below is the trigger point of this particular Centos 6 tmpfile weakness.

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static void *
tf_recvmsg (void *arg)
{
  struct sockaddr_un sun;

  tempfd = socket (AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
  if (tempfd == -1)
    {
      printf ("%s: first socket call failed\n", __FUNCTION__);
      exit (1);
    }

  int tries = 0;
  do
    {
      if (++tries > 10)
	{
	  printf ("%s: too many unsuccessful bind calls\n", __FUNCTION__);
	}

      strcpy (sun.sun_path, "/tmp/tst-cancel4-socket-5-XXXXXX");
      if (mktemp (sun.sun_path) == NULL)
	{
	  printf ("%s: cannot generate temp file name\n", __FUNCTION__);
	  exit (1);
	}

      sun.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
    }
  while (bind (tempfd, (struct sockaddr *) &sun,
	       offsetof (struct sockaddr_un, sun_path)
	       + strlen (sun.sun_path) + 1) != 0);

  tempfname = strdup (sun.sun_path);

  tempfd2 = socket (AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
  if (tempfd2 == -1)
    {
      printf ("%s: second socket call failed\n", __FUNCTION__);
      exit (1);
    }

  int r = pthread_barrier_wait (&b2);
  if (r != 0 && r != PTHREAD_BARRIER_SERIAL_THREAD)
    {
      printf ("%s: barrier_wait failed\n", __FUNCTION__);
      exit (1);