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sys-boot/grub: backport fix for CVE-2021-3981
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Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/835082
Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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41 changes: 41 additions & 0 deletions sys-boot/grub/files/grub-2.06-grub-mkconfig-restore-umask.patch
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From 0adec29674561034771c13e446069b41ef41e4d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 16:13:28 +0800
Subject: grub-mkconfig: Restore umask for the grub.cfg

The commit ab2e53c8a (grub-mkconfig: Honor a symlink when generating
configuration by grub-mkconfig) has inadvertently discarded umask for
creating grub.cfg in the process of running grub-mkconfig. The resulting
wrong permission (0644) would allow unprivileged users to read GRUB
configuration file content. This presents a low confidentiality risk
as grub.cfg may contain non-secured plain-text passwords.

This patch restores the missing umask and sets the creation file mode
to 0600 preventing unprivileged access.

Fixes: CVE-2021-3981

Signed-off-by: Michael Chang <mchang@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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util/grub-mkconfig.in | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/grub-mkconfig.in b/util/grub-mkconfig.in
index c3ea761..62335d0 100644
--- a/util/grub-mkconfig.in
+++ b/util/grub-mkconfig.in
@@ -301,7 +301,10 @@ and /etc/grub.d/* files or please file a bug report with
exit 1
else
# none of the children aborted with error, install the new grub.cfg
+ oldumask=$(umask)
+ umask 077
cat ${grub_cfg}.new > ${grub_cfg}
+ umask $oldumask
rm -f ${grub_cfg}.new
fi
fi
--
cgit v1.1

Expand Up @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ PATCHES=(
"${FILESDIR}"/gfxpayload.patch
"${FILESDIR}"/grub-2.02_beta2-KERNEL_GLOBS.patch
"${FILESDIR}"/grub-2.06-test-words.patch
"${FILESDIR}"/grub-2.06-grub-mkconfig-restore-umask.patch
)

DEJAVU=dejavu-sans-ttf-2.37
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