From 0d70c43a1691adf19188b50344046ee951565e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Baines Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 11:54:24 +0000 Subject: Customise a couple of the posts --- posts/2019/42/en_US.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'posts/2019/42/en_US.md') diff --git a/posts/2019/42/en_US.md b/posts/2019/42/en_US.md index ed97d53..1037575 100644 --- a/posts/2019/42/en_US.md +++ b/posts/2019/42/en_US.md @@ -1 +1,12 @@ +synopsis: guix-daemon security issue --- + +### Highlights + +#### Insecure `/var/guix/profiles/per-user` permissions. + +On a multi-user system, this allowed a malicious user to create and +populate that `$USER` sub-directory for another user that had not yet +logged in. Since `/var/.../$USER` is in `$PATH`, the target user +could end up running attacker-provided code. See [issue +37744](https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744) for more information. -- cgit v1.2.3