[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] logging: restrict sockets to mode 0600

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 21 12:06:27 UTC 2019


The virtlogd daemon's only intended client is the libvirtd daemon. As
such it should never allow clients from other user accounts to connect.
The code already enforces this and drops clients from other UIDs, but
we can get earlier (and thus stronger) protection against DoS by setting
the socket permissions to 0600

Fixes CVE-2019-10132

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 src/logging/virtlogd-admin.socket.in | 1 +
 src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in       | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd-admin.socket.in b/src/logging/virtlogd-admin.socket.in
index 595e6c4c4b..5c41dfeb7b 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd-admin.socket.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd-admin.socket.in
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Before=libvirtd.service
 [Socket]
 ListenStream=@localstatedir@/run/libvirt/virtlogd-admin-sock
 Service=virtlogd.service
+SocketMode=0600
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=sockets.target
diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
index 22b9360c8d..ae48cdab9a 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Before=libvirtd.service
 
 [Socket]
 ListenStream=@localstatedir@/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock
+SocketMode=0600
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=sockets.target
-- 
2.21.0




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