From: Katy Feng <fkaty@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:21:20 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Drop group privileges before dropping user privileges in vmtoolsd vmusr service.
X-Git-Tag: stable-12.4.0~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db767e6d28188cbed8a13b2497877e05c5fd38ab;p=thirdparty%2Fopen-vm-tools.git

Drop group privileges before dropping user privileges in vmtoolsd vmusr service.
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diff --git a/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c b/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
index 6c52156bc..be31206c3 100644
--- a/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
+++ b/open-vm-tools/services/vmtoolsd/mainPosix.c
@@ -273,8 +273,8 @@ main(int argc,
       uid_t uid = getuid();
       gid_t gid = getgid();
 
-      if ((Id_SetREUid(uid, uid) != 0) ||
-          (Id_SetREGid(gid, gid) != 0)) {
+      if ((Id_SetREGid(gid, gid) != 0) ||
+          (Id_SetREUid(uid, uid) != 0)) {
          g_printerr("could not drop privileges: %s", strerror(errno));
          ToolsCloseFds();
          goto exit;