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On Thu, 2021-07-08 at 21:43 -0700, Georgy Yakovlev wrote: |
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> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@g.o> |
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> Signed-off-by: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> |
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> --- |
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> .../2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles.en.txt | 64 +++++++++++++++++++ |
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> 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+) |
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> create mode 100644 2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles.en.txt |
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> |
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> diff --git a/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles.en.txt b/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles.en.txt |
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> new file mode 100644 |
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> index 0000000..e946c89 |
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> --- /dev/null |
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> +++ b/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles/2021-07-07-systemd-tmpfiles.en.txt |
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> @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ |
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> +Title: systemd-tmpfiles replaces opentmpfiles due to security issues |
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> +Author: Georgy Yakovlev <gyakovlev@g.o> |
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> +Author: Sam James <sam@g.o> |
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> +Posted: 2021-07-07 |
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> +Revision: 1 |
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> +News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/opentmpfiles |
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> +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles |
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> + |
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> +A tmpfiles [0] implementation provides a generic mechanism to define |
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> +the creation of regular files, directories, pipes, and device nodes, |
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> +adjustments to their access mode, ownership, attributes, quota |
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> +assignments, and contents, and finally their time-based removal. |
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> +It is commonly used for volatile and temporary files and directories |
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> +such as those located under /run/, /tmp/, /var/tmp/, the API file |
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> +systems such as /sys/ or /proc/, as well as some other directories |
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> +below /var/. [1] |
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> + |
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> +On 2021-07-06, the sys-apps/opentmpfiles package was masked due to a |
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> +root privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2017-18925 [2], |
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> +bug #751415 [3], issue 4 [4] upstream). |
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> + |
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> +The use of opentmpfiles is discouraged by its maintainer due to the |
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> +unpatched vulnerability and other long-standing bugs [5]. |
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> + |
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> +Users will start seeing their package manager trying to replace |
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> +sys-apps/opentmpfiles with sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles because it is |
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> +another provider of virtual/tmpfiles. |
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> + |
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> +Despite the name, 'systemd-tmpfiles' does not depend on systemd, does |
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> +not use dbus, and is just a drop-in replacement for opentmpfiles. It is |
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> +a small binary built from systemd source code, but works separately, |
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> +similarly to eudev or elogind. It is known to work on both glibc and |
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> +musl systems. |
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> + |
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> +Note that systemd-tmpfiles is specifically for non-systemd systems. It |
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> +is intended to be used on an OpenRC system. |
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Maybe it'd be worth adding a sentence that systemd itself provides |
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the utility on systemd systems. |
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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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