This has meant very little for a long time as configure.ac just
hardcoded these values depending on the current OS versions at the
time.
The only place where this is really 'needed' is XlationSvc.c in DtSvc
so that differences between locale specifications on various versions
of an OS can be accounted for. So for now, we just define those when
building DtSvc.
We could probably safely remove them as well with an update to the
Xlate locale DB to remove ancient cruft we don't care about anymore.
For various other modules, like dtlogin, dtsession, etc we just use
the code that was already being used due to the hardcoded values we've
had for the last 10-ish years.
Previously we would fail in some parts of the code if we did not have a
premade configuration, now we use any code that was marked as Linux, BSD and
Solaris as our basis in order to support building unknown Unix systems.
These are just minor tweaks to make sure the 'make install' part does
what it is supposed to do. I also removed some commented code in the
dtmail Makefile related to SunOS, as that is not currently suppoerted
anyway.
Marco Ivaldi <marco.ivaldi@mediaservice.net> has identified 3
vulnerabilities in CDE.
Two of them could affect our CDE (open-source version), while the 3rd
(sdtcm_convert) is Solaris specific.
The two vulnerabilities, both of which affect dtsession could allow a
local privilege escalation to root. A POC exists for Solaris. The
POC will not function on our CDE for two main reasons:
- the POC is Solaris specific
- The overflowed variables in question are allocated on the heap,
whereas in Solaris these variables are located on the stack.
The first vulnerability allows an extra long palette name to be used
to cause a crash via insufficient validation in
SrvPalette.c:CheckMonitor().
The second, which has not yet been assigned a CERT CVE resides in
SmCreateDirs.c:_DtCreateDtDirs() in libDtSvc. Due to insufficient
bounds checking, a crash or corruption can be achieved by using a very
long DISPLAY name.
This one is considered difficult to exploit, and no POC code is
available at this time. CDE 2.x code-bases are also listed as not
vulnerable, however some work has been done anyway to do some proper
bounds checking in this function.
The following text portions are copied from the relevant advisories,
which have not been released as of this writing.
NOTE: Oracle CDE does NOT use CDE 2.3.0a or earlier as mentioned
below. They are completely different code-bases):
Regarding CVE-2020-2692:
A buffer overflow in the CheckMonitor() function in the Common
Desktop Environment 2.3.0a and earlier, as distributed with Oracle
Solaris 10 1/13 (Update 11) and earlier, allows local users to gain
root privileges via a long palette name passed to dtsession in a
malicious .Xdefaults file.
Note that Oracle Solaris CDE is based on the original CDE 1.x train,
which is different from the CDE 2.x codebase that was later open
sourced. Most notably, the vulnerable buffer in the Oracle Solaris
CDE is stack-based, while in the open source version it is
heap-based.
Regarding the DtSvc bug, which does not currently have a CERT CVE:
A difficult to exploit stack-based buffer overflow in the
_DtCreateDtDirs() function in the Common Desktop Environment version
distributed with Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 (Update 11) and earlier may
allow local users to corrupt memory and potentially execute
arbitrary code in order to escalate privileges via a long X11
display name. The vulnerable function is located in the libDtSvc
library and can be reached by executing the setuid program
dtsession.
The open source version of CDE (based on the CDE 2.x codebase) is
not affected.
Also, restructure some of the dependencies in the lib/tt binaries. We
will link with libtt (which will include libtirpc as a dependency),
and XTOOLLIB - all the right X11 stuff without needing to add it to
every OS. Removed several uneeded OS specializations ("if LINUX",
etc) as a result.
The POSIX __linux__ commit broke the special detection on linux used
to determine whether a secure system was in use or not.
This commit reworks the logic a little bit to avoid special casing
linux in main().
It also reworks the logic in CanReAuthenticate() to fix up some issues
"fixed" to correct converity warnings. The logic in this case was
mostly ok, but still didn't account for the proper usage of this
function. Error detection improved somewhat as a result.
Patrick Georgi