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Re: New security check?

Posted By: david@smooth1.co.uk
Date: Thursday, 10 August 2017, at 4:48 p.m.

In Response To: Re: New security check? (Art Kagel)

..and all because the oninit binary checks $INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit rather than being non-portable and doing something like checking argv[0] or /proc/<pid>/exe on Linux!

Jonathan, clearly a bug needs to be logged ;->>

Regards,
David.

> On 10 August 2017 at 21:03 Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I agree Jonathan. No SUID script. I am going to go with the alias route.
> There's an environment script that user informix runs out of its profile.
> Will alias oninit there to a script somewhere outside of $INFORMIXDIR so I
> don't have to remember to copy it after an upgrade, the script won't be
> suid anything and will be owned by informix. It will execute
> "$INFORMIXDIR/bin/oninit $*" after reexecuting the environment script to
> make sure that the environment is correct. That will get around the problem
> we are trying to solve which is someone modifying their environment after
> logging in and starting the engine manually (perhaps after a crash) with
> the wrong environment.
>
> Art
>
> Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
> ASK Database Management
> www.askdbmgt.com
>
> Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/
>
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>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Jonathan Leffler <
> jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Be very cautious about making a shell script setuid.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:15 PM, david@smooth1.co.uk <david@smooth1.co.uk
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Art,
> > >
> > > Solved by making the oninit script setuid root, I wonder if this is to do
> > > oninit checking for a non-root installation?
> > >
> > > INVESTIGATION:
> > >
> > > Tested with 12.10.xC9 on "CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611 (Core)"
> > >
> > > Playing with strace I found that oninit does a stat of itself!
> > >
> > > I created my oninit script as user informix hence it did not have the
> > same
> > > permissons as the original oninit binary.
> > >
> > > Gradually matching permissions with the oninit binary I found that if you
> > > make
> > > the oninit script to be setuid root then the issue is resolved.
> > >
> > > chown root oninit
> > > chmod o-r oninit
> > > chmod o-x oninit
> > > chmod u+s oninit (Solved!)
> > >
> > > ls -l oninit*
> > > -rwsrwx---. 1 root informix 99 Aug 10 20:20 oninit
> > > -rwsr-sr--. 1 root informix 25528408 Aug 9 06:38 oninit.su
> > >
> > > I suppose for completness we could do
> > >
> > > chmod g-w oninit
> > > chmod g+s oninit
> > > chmod o+r oninit
> > >
> > > ls -l oninit*
> > > -rwsr-sr--. 1 root informix 99 Aug 10 20:20 oninit
> > > -rwsr-sr--. 1 root informix 25528408 Aug 9 06:38 oninit.su
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > David.
> > >
> > > > On 10 August 2017 at 19:35 Art Kagel <art.kagel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Interesting idea Dan. Have to think if that works in all circumstances,
> > > but
> > > > it sounds like a winner.
> > > >
> > > > Art
> > > >
> > > > Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant
> > > > ASK Database Management
> > > > www.askdbmgt.com
> > > >
> > > > Blog: http://informix-myview.blogspot.com/
> > > >
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> > > > and do not reflect on the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I
> > > am
> > > > associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do
> > > > those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any
> > > > entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Mueller, Daniel D. <
> > DDMueller@west.com
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > We do something similar except we used an alias named oninit. Do what
> > > you
> > > > > want
> > > > > with the alias and then call the real oninit.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan
> > > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Art
> > > > > Kagel
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 1:32 PM
> > > > > To: ids@iiug.org
> > > > > Subject: New security check? [39678]
> > > > >
> > > > > Folks:
> > > > >
> > > > > I renamed oninit and replaced it with a script that sets the
> > > environment
> > > > > then
> > > > > runs the renamed oninit binary. Wanted this to make certain that a
> > > manual
> > > > > restart has the correct environment settings.
> > > > >
> > > > > On startup using either the script or the renamed oninit the engine
> > > > > complains
> > > > > about the permissions on the root chunk and aborts the startup.
> > > > > Name oninit back to itself and all is well. Permissions on the root
> > > chunk
> > > > > and
> > > > > all the other chunk files are fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have done this many times in the past on earlier releases of
> > Informix
> > > > > with
> > > > > no issues. Is there some new security check in v12.10? Is there are
> > way
> > > > > around
> > > > > it?
> > > > >
> > > > > Art
> > > > >
> > > > > Art S. Kagel, President and Principal Consultant ASK Database
> > > Management
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