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Bug#569222: marked as done (risky use of mount from a random partition)



Your message dated Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:07:31 +0000
with message-id <E1Nk06V-00067M-57@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#569222: fixed in os-prober 1.36
has caused the Debian Bug report #569222,
regarding risky use of mount from a random partition
to be marked as done.

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Package: os-prober
Severity: normal
Tags: security

To mount a /boot partition, os-prober uses the mount binary from the
linux system it is probing. There's a possible security risk here.
Imagine if a compromised system is being reinstalled using a new drive,
and the compromised drive is still connected. An attacker who wanted to
target d-i could arrange for mount to copy itself over to /target when
run. Or a virus, not targeting d-i at all, could infect /target.

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r50221 | cjwatson | 2007-11-22 13:16:50 -0500 (Thu, 22 Nov 2007) | 2 lines

* Try finding a LABEL/UUID-capable /bin/mount in $tmpmnt as well as in
  /target.
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I'm wondering what was the rationalle for needing to do that, and why
does the code use the mount from the system being probed, in *preference*
to the one in /target? Perhaps the idea was that a distribution's fstab
might use special features that are only available with its version of
mount, if so I hope that Debian's mount has caught up..?

Also, since we have a udeb containing libblkid, perhaps it's time to
spend the 100k of ram to have os-prober-udeb depend on a mount-udeb
and remove this hack. IIRC this is the last place where d-i runs
binraries from /target or elsewhere w/o chrooting, which has caused
other problems before.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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Source: os-prober
Source-Version: 1.36

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
os-prober, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

os-prober-udeb_1.36_amd64.udeb
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober-udeb_1.36_amd64.udeb
os-prober_1.36.dsc
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.36.dsc
os-prober_1.36.tar.gz
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.36.tar.gz
os-prober_1.36_amd64.deb
  to main/o/os-prober/os-prober_1.36_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 569222@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> (supplier of updated os-prober package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:50:17 -0300
Source: os-prober
Binary: os-prober-udeb os-prober
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.36
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
Description: 
 os-prober  - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives
 os-prober-udeb - utility to detect other OSes on a set of drives (udeb)
Closes: 547382 563825 569222 569229 569235
Changes: 
 os-prober (1.36) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Suppress tedious fd leak warnings from LVM tools.
 .
   [ Frans Pop ]
   * Drop support for the discontinued lpia architecture.
 .
   [ Christian Perrier ]
   * Properly quote variable in os-probes/mounted/x86. Thanks
     to Fabian Greffrath for the patch. Closes: #563825
 .
   [ Otavio Salvador ]
   * Applied patch from Brad Jorsch <anomie@users.sourceforge.net> to
     properly detect Windows' recovery partitions. Closes: #547382
 .
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * Load btrfs module if available.
   * Fix arbitrary code execution via eval. Closes: #569229
   * Tighten up quoting of shell variables overall.
   * Avoid ever running mount command from filesystems being probed.
     Closes: #569222
   * Avoid leaving a temporary mountpoint behind when exiting
     in some exceptional conditions. Closes: #569235
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