[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles/

[Sam James]

commit:     a93dbc1701de3b983c6f791391f7967d4b919b4a
Author:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Fri Jul  9 12:33:08 2021 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Fri Jul  9 12:33:08 2021 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=a93dbc17

Revert "2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles: add news item"

This reverts commit 29519425838e9b67c6802e321ce52c76a65c2215.

Reverting for now to allow more time for review on the mailing list
and to fix title / date posted, after discussion on IRC.

Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org>

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-Title: systemd-tmpfiles replaces opentmpfiles due to security issues
-Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o>
-Author: Sam James <sam@g.o>
-Posted: 2021-07-07
-Revision: 1
-News-Item-Format: 2.0
-Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/opentmpfiles
-Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles
-
-A tmpfiles [0] implementation provides a generic mechanism to define
-the creation of regular files, directories, pipes, and device nodes,
-adjustments to their access mode, ownership, attributes, quota
-assignments, and contents, and finally their time-based removal.
-It is commonly used for volatile and temporary files and directories
-such as those located under /run/, /tmp/, /var/tmp/, the API file
-systems such as /sys/ or /proc/, as well as some other directories
-below /var/. [1]
-
-On 2021-07-06, the sys-apps/opentmpfiles package was masked due to a
-root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2017-18925 [2],
-bug #751415 [3], issue 4 [4] upstream).
-
-The use of opentmpfiles is discouraged by its maintainer due to the
-unpatched vulnerability and other long-standing bugs [5].
-
-Users will start seeing their package manager trying to replace
-sys-apps/opentmpfiles with sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles because it is
-another provider of virtual/tmpfiles.
-
-Despite the name, 'systemd-tmpfiles' does not depend on systemd, does
-not use dbus, and is just a drop-in replacement for opentmpfiles. It is
-a small binary built from systemd source code, but works separately,
-similarly to eudev or elogind. It is known to work on both glibc and
-musl systems.
-
-Note that systemd-tmpfiles is specifically for non-systemd systems. It
-is intended to be used on an OpenRC system.
-
-If you wish to selectively test systemd-tmpfiles, follow those steps:
-
- 1. # emerge --oneshot sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles
- 2. # reboot
- 3. # rm /etc/runlevels/boot/opentmpfiles-setup
- 4. # rm /etc/runlevels/sysinit/opentmpfiles-dev
-
-No other steps required.
-
-If, after reviewing the linked bug reference for opentmpfiles, you feel
-your system is not vulnerable/applicable to the attack described, you
-can unmask [6] opentmpfiles at your own risk:
-
- 1. In /etc/portage/package.unmask, add a line:
- -sys-apps/opentmpfiles-
- 2. # emerge --oneshot sys-apps/opentmpfiles
-
-Note that opentmpfiles is likely to be removed from gentoo repository
-in the future.
-
-[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-tmpfiles.html
-[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html
-[2] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18925
-[3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/751415
-[4] https://github.com/OpenRC/opentmpfiles/issues/4
-[5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/741216
-[6] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Unmasking_a_package
-