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From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 18:21:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] basic/user-util: always use base 10 for user/group numbers

We would parse numbers with base prefixes as user identifiers. For example,
"0x2b3bfa0" would be interpreted as UID==45334432 and "01750" would be
interpreted as UID==1000. This parsing was used also in cases where either a
user/group name or number may be specified. This means that names like
0x2b3bfa0 would be ambiguous: they are a valid user name according to our
documented relaxed rules, but they would also be parsed as numeric uids.

This behaviour is definitely not expected by users, since tools generally only
accept decimal numbers (e.g. id, getent passwd), while other tools only accept
user names and thus will interpret such strings as user names without even
attempting to convert them to numbers (su, ssh). So let's follow suit and only
accept numbers in decimal notation. Effectively this means that we will reject
such strings as a username/uid/groupname/gid where strict mode is used, and try
to look up a user/group with such a name in relaxed mode.

Since the function changed is fairly low-level and fairly widely used, this
affects multiple tools: loginctl show-user/enable-linger/disable-linger foo',
the third argument in sysusers.d, fourth and fifth arguments in tmpfiles.d,
etc.

Fixes #15985.

(cherry picked from commit 156a5fd297b61bce31630d7a52c15614bf784843)

Resolves: #1848373
---
 src/basic/parse-util.h    |  8 ++++++--
 src/basic/user-util.c     |  2 +-
 src/test/test-user-util.c | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/basic/parse-util.h b/src/basic/parse-util.h
index f3267f4cfe..1fc1af7615 100644
--- a/src/basic/parse-util.h
+++ b/src/basic/parse-util.h
@@ -50,9 +50,13 @@ static inline int safe_atoux16(const char *s, uint16_t *ret) {
 
 int safe_atoi16(const char *s, int16_t *ret);
 
-static inline int safe_atou32(const char *s, uint32_t *ret_u) {
+static inline int safe_atou32_full(const char *s, unsigned base, uint32_t *ret_u) {
         assert_cc(sizeof(uint32_t) == sizeof(unsigned));
-        return safe_atou(s, (unsigned*) ret_u);
+        return safe_atou_full(s, base, (unsigned*) ret_u);
+}
+
+static inline int safe_atou32(const char *s, uint32_t *ret_u) {
+        return safe_atou32_full(s, 0, (unsigned*) ret_u);
 }
 
 static inline int safe_atoi32(const char *s, int32_t *ret_i) {
diff --git a/src/basic/user-util.c b/src/basic/user-util.c
index d92969c966..10eeb256cd 100644
--- a/src/basic/user-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/user-util.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int parse_uid(const char *s, uid_t *ret) {
         assert(s);
 
         assert_cc(sizeof(uid_t) == sizeof(uint32_t));
-        r = safe_atou32(s, &uid);
+        r = safe_atou32_full(s, 10, &uid);
         if (r < 0)
                 return r;
 
diff --git a/src/test/test-user-util.c b/src/test/test-user-util.c
index 9114d30b8c..8bf3dcd567 100644
--- a/src/test/test-user-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-user-util.c
@@ -46,9 +46,19 @@ static void test_parse_uid(void) {
 
         r = parse_uid("65535", &uid);
         assert_se(r == -ENXIO);
+        assert_se(uid == 100);
+
+        r = parse_uid("0x1234", &uid);
+        assert_se(r == -EINVAL);
+        assert_se(uid == 100);
+
+        r = parse_uid("01234", &uid);
+        assert_se(r == 0);
+        assert_se(uid == 1234);
 
         r = parse_uid("asdsdas", &uid);
         assert_se(r == -EINVAL);
+        assert_se(uid == 1234);
 }
 
 static void test_uid_ptr(void) {