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Drop GLIBC_TUNABLES in setxid processes
authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:45:45 +0000 (16:15 +0530)
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Thu, 9 Feb 2017 05:11:46 +0000 (00:11 -0500)
Drop the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable from the environment of
setxid processes to avoid passing it on to non-setxid children.  This
prevents potentially insecure tunables in the GLIBC_TUNABLES envvar
from crossing over into a child that may use a libc that has tunables
support.

* sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h: Add GLIBC_TUNABLES.

(cherry picked from commit 537a06fbdeb9a6c2184c745c15ef3346681f5eeb)

sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h

index d5b8119c9cb5cf5f1391325282287c5935c86589..3e56538b51c4acefff9aa9fb805ae22c641646f1 100644 (file)
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #define UNSECURE_ENVVARS \
   "GCONV_PATH\0"                                                             \
   "GETCONF_DIR\0"                                                            \
+  "GLIBC_TUNABLES\0"                                                         \
   "HOSTALIASES\0"                                                            \
   "LD_AUDIT\0"                                                               \
   "LD_DEBUG\0"                                                               \