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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch b/debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14478d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/patches/ssh-agent-setgid.patch @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +From bf54d67a00bf4d408f0e52236c4248cecfb5177f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> +Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 16:10:13 +0000 +Subject: Document consequences of ssh-agent being setgid in ssh-agent(1) + +Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/711623 +Forwarded: no +Last-Update: 2020-02-21 + +Patch-Name: ssh-agent-setgid.patch +--- + ssh-agent.1 | 15 +++++++++++++++ + 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) + +diff --git a/ssh-agent.1 b/ssh-agent.1 +index b0bf65da8..ba418bb41 100644 +--- a/ssh-agent.1 ++++ b/ssh-agent.1 +@@ -230,6 +230,21 @@ socket and stores its pathname in this variable. + It is accessible only to the current user, + but is easily abused by root or another instance of the same user. + .El ++.Pp ++In Debian, ++.Nm ++is installed with the set-group-id bit set, to prevent ++.Xr ptrace 2 ++attacks retrieving private key material. ++This has the side-effect of causing the run-time linker to remove certain ++environment variables which might have security implications for set-id ++programs, including ++.Ev LD_PRELOAD , ++.Ev LD_LIBRARY_PATH , ++and ++.Ev TMPDIR . ++If you need to set any of these environment variables, you will need to do ++so in the program executed by ssh-agent. + .Sh FILES + .Bl -tag -width Ds + .It Pa $TMPDIR/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent.<ppid> |