hal ChangeLog,1.731,1.732

David Zeuthen david at freedesktop.org
Tue Jan 10 18:44:48 PST 2006


Update of /cvs/hal/hal
In directory gabe:/tmp/cvs-serv10260

Modified Files:
	ChangeLog 
Log Message:
2006-01-10  David Zeuthen  <davidz at redhat.com>

        * tools/hal-system-storage-mount: Fix a potential security hole where
        the user could pass e.g. umask=`/bin/evil` and thus execute /bin/evil
        with root priviliges. Also require /bin/bash instead of just /bin/sh.
        Reported by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>.



Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvs/hal/hal/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.731
retrieving revision 1.732
diff -u -d -r1.731 -r1.732
--- ChangeLog	10 Jan 2006 19:03:45 -0000	1.731
+++ ChangeLog	11 Jan 2006 02:44:46 -0000	1.732
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-01-10  David Zeuthen  <davidz at redhat.com>
+
+	* tools/hal-system-storage-mount: Fix a potential security hole where
+	the user could pass e.g. umask=`/bin/evil` and thus execute /bin/evil
+	with root priviliges. Also require /bin/bash instead of just /bin/sh.
+	Reported by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers at vrfy.org>.
+
 2006-01-08  Richard Hughes <richard at hughsie.com>
 
 	* hal.conf.in: Add a fallback for the root user for distros that do




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