Package: byobu
Version: 5.87-1
Severity: serious
Justification: possible user security hole
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Byobu fails to behave well in an environment where multiple hosts share
home directories through NFS.
Doing the following provokes malicious behaviour:
1. Set byobu to automatically start on login
2. Login to host A and let byobu set up its environment
3. Login to host B in some way, with host B using the
same home directory
The expected result would be byobu running flawlessly on both hosts.
The actual result is byobu wreaking havoc because it finds a running
session in ~/.byobu and tries to join it. This fails at the point where
it tries to get to its state in /dev/shm:
/usr/lib/byobu/include/dirs:52: no matches found: /dev/shm/byobu-nik-*
mkdir: cannot create directory „/cache.tmux“: Permission denied
There are at least two bugs:
1. byobu should not try to join a session running on another host
2. Failure to find the /dev/shm directory should result in
immediate failure, not have byobu go on with an empty
variable and try to create stuff in /
This bug is possibly security relevant because the intention of the
script, namely separating user directories in /dev/shm, is entirely
defeated. As a matter of lucky fact, / is not writable by regular users.
However, this will break even more once root decides to use byobu and
succeeds in creating /cache.tmux (or whatever byobu will create for
other backends). Please find out whether this is exploitable in any way.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages byobu depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.55
ii gawk 1:4.1.1+dfsg-1
ii gettext-base 0.19.3-2
ii python 2.7.8-4
ii python-newt 0.52.17-1+b1
ii screen 4.2.1-3
ii tmux 1.9-6
Versions of packages byobu recommends:
pn run-one <none>
ii screen 4.2.1-3
ii tmux 1.9-6
Versions of packages byobu suggests:
pn apport <none>
pn ccze <none>
ii lsb-release 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu3
pn ttf-ubuntu-font-family <none>
pn update-notifier-common <none>
ii vim 2:7.4.488-4
pn w3m <none>
pn wireless-tools <none>
- -- debconf information:
byobu/launch-by-default: false
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