CVE-2013-2207, BZ #15755: Disable pt_chown.

The helper binary pt_chown tricked into granting access to another
user's pseudo-terminal.

Pre-conditions for the attack:

 * Attacker with local user account
 * Kernel with FUSE support
 * "user_allow_other" in /etc/fuse.conf
 * Victim with allocated slave in /dev/pts

Using the setuid installed pt_chown and a weak check on whether a file
descriptor is a tty, an attacker could fake a pty check using FUSE and
trick pt_chown to grant ownership of a pty descriptor that the current
user does not own.  It cannot access /dev/pts/ptmx however.

In most modern distributions pt_chown is not needed because devpts
is enabled by default. The fix for this CVE is to disable building
and using pt_chown by default. We still provide a configure option
to enable hte use of pt_chown but distributions do so at their own
risk.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 4db1acf115..769e8eff66 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -353,6 +353,16 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([nscd],
 	      [use_nscd=$enableval],
 	      [use_nscd=yes])
 
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([pt_chown],
+	      [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-pt_chown],
+	       [Enable building and installing pt_chown])],
+	      [build_pt_chown=$enableval],
+	      [build_pt_chown=no])
+AC_SUBST(build_pt_chown)
+if test $build_pt_chown = yes; then
+  AC_DEFINE(HAVE_PT_CHOWN)
+fi
+
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