From 9ed289ca9c792f525cf54e694b1b641300c000e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:24:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cgrulesengd: remove umask(0) One of our partners has noticed that cgred daemon is creating a log file (/var/log/cgred) with too wide permissions (0666) and that is seen as a security bug because an untrusted user can write to otherwise restricted area. CVE-2018-14348 has been assigned to this issue. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Balbir Singh --- src/daemon/cgrulesengd.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/daemon/cgrulesengd.c b/src/daemon/cgrulesengd.c index 170837a..41aadd4 100644 --- a/src/daemon/cgrulesengd.c +++ b/src/daemon/cgrulesengd.c @@ -885,9 +885,6 @@ int cgre_start_daemon(const char *logp, const int logf, } else if (pid > 0) { exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } - - /* Change the file mode mask. */ - umask(0); } else { flog(LOG_DEBUG, "Not using daemon mode\n"); pid = getpid(); -- 2.17.1