Fix nsssysinit to allow root to modify the nss system database (#547860)

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Elio Maldonado 2010-01-07 02:41:42 +00:00
parent 09ecfd57b6
commit 1aff3403a3
2 changed files with 115 additions and 1 deletions

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diff -up nss-3.12.5/mozilla/security/nss/lib/sysinit/nsssysinit.c.547860 nss-3.12.5/mozilla/security/nss/lib/sysinit/nsssysinit.c
--- nss-3.12.5/mozilla/security/nss/lib/sysinit/nsssysinit.c.547860 2010-01-06 17:57:30.722388282 -0800
+++ nss-3.12.5/mozilla/security/nss/lib/sysinit/nsssysinit.c 2010-01-06 18:20:59.713397530 -0800
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
*/
#ifdef XP_UNIX
+#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
@@ -108,12 +109,26 @@ getSystemDB(void) {
return PORT_Strdup(NSS_DEFAULT_SYSTEM);
}
+static PRBool
+userIsRoot()
+{
+ /* this works for linux and all unixes that we know off
+ though it isn't stated as such in POSIX documentation */
+ return getuid() == 0;
+}
+
+static PRBool
+userCanModifySystemDB()
+{
+ return (access(NSS_DEFAULT_SYSTEM, W_OK) == 0);
+}
+
#else
#ifdef XP_WIN
static char *
getUserDB(void)
{
- /* use the registry to find the user's NSS_DIR. if no entry exists, creaate
+ /* use the registry to find the user's NSS_DIR. if no entry exists, create
* one in the users Appdir location */
return NULL;
}
@@ -121,13 +136,28 @@ getUserDB(void)
static char *
getSystemDB(void)
{
- /* use the registry to find the system's NSS_DIR. if no entry exists, creaate
+ /* use the registry to find the system's NSS_DIR. if no entry exists, create
* one based on the windows system data area */
return NULL;
}
+static PRBool
+userIsRoot()
+{
+ /* use the registry to find if the user is the system administrator. */
+ return PR_FALSE;
+}
+
+static PRBool
+userCanModifySystemDB()
+{
+ /* use the registry to find if the user has administrative privilege
+ * to modify the system's nss database. */
+ return PR_FALSE;
+}
+
#else
-#error "Need to write getUserDB and get SystemDB functions"
+#error "Need to write getUserDB, SystemDB, userIsRoot, and userCanModifySystemDB functions"
#endif
#endif
@@ -225,7 +255,8 @@ get_list(char *filename, char *stripped_
if (userdb && !strcmp(filename, userdb))
filename = NULL;
- if (userdb != NULL) {
+ /* Don't open root's user DB */
+ if (userdb != NULL && !userIsRoot()) {
/* return a list of databases to open. First the user Database */
module_list[next++] = PR_smprintf(
"library= "
@@ -245,7 +276,8 @@ get_list(char *filename, char *stripped_
userdb, stripped_parameters);
}
- if (filename && 0 /* This doesn't actually work. If we register
+ if (filename && !userIsRoot() && 0
+ /* This doesn't actually work. If we register
both this and the sysdb (in either order)
then only one of them actually shows up */) {
module_list[next++] = PR_smprintf(
@@ -255,13 +287,14 @@ get_list(char *filename, char *stripped_
"NSS=\"%sflags=internal\"",filename, filename, nssflags);
}
- /* now the system database (always read only) */
+ /* now the system database (always read only unless it's root) */
if (sysdb) {
- module_list[next++] = PR_smprintf(
+ const char *readonly = userCanModifySystemDB() ? "" : "flags=readonly";
+ module_list[next++] = PR_smprintf(
"library= "
"module=\"NSS system database\" "
- "parameters=\"configdir='sql:%s' tokenDescription='NSS system database' flags=readonly\" "
- "NSS=\"%sflags=internal,critical\"",sysdb, nssflags);
+ "parameters=\"configdir='sql:%s' tokenDescription='NSS system database' %s\" "
+ "NSS=\"%sflags=internal,critical\"",sysdb, readonly, nssflags);
}
/* that was the last module */

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Summary: Network Security Services
Name: nss
Version: 3.12.5
Release: 1%{?dist}.12.1
Release: 1%{?dist}.14
License: MPLv1.1 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+
URL: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/
Group: System Environment/Libraries
@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Patch8: nss-sysinit.patch
Patch9: 540387.patch
Patch10: 545779.patch
Patch11: 546221.patch
Patch12: 547860.patch
%description
Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to
@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ low level services.
%patch9 -p1 -b .540387
%patch10 -p0 -b .545779
%patch11 -p1 -b .546221
%patch12 -p1 -b .547860
%build
@ -483,6 +485,9 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_includedir}/nss3/nsslowhash.h
%changelog
* Wed Jan 06 2010 Elio Maldonado<emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.5-1.14
- Fix nsssysinit to allow root to modify the nss system database (#547860)
* Wed Jan 06 2010 Elio Maldonado<emaldona@redhat.com> - 3.12.5-1.12.1
- Temporarily disabling the ssl tests until Bug 539183 is resolved