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Delegate creates directories writable for anyone

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Olaf Seibert)
Wed Jul 21 17:03:28 1999

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Date:         Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:00:34 +0200
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From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@POLDER.UBC.KUN.NL>
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On 30 june, I wrote (approximately) the following email to the author of
Delegate, a multi-protocol proxy deamon (ftp, http, telnet, etc). So far
I have received no reply, so now I'm posting here.

The Delegate home page is at http://wall.etl.go.jp/delegate/ .

Hello Yutaka Sato,

I am starting to use your delegate proxy on NetBSD. I noticed that it
creates lots of files and directories in the DGROOT directory that are
writable for everybody. This is my configuration:

-P21
SERVER=ftp://ftp.[removed]
PERMIT=[removed]
DGROOT=/tmp/delegate
OWNER=delegate

Delegate is started from inetd.conf:

ftp             stream  tcp     wait    delegate /usr/local/bin/delegated
        /usr/local/bin/delegated +=/etc/delegated.conf

Output of ls -alR /tmp/delegate:

total 14
drwxrwxrwx  7 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 .
drwxrwxrwt  4 root      wheel  512 Jun 30 16:07 ..
drwxrwxrwx  5 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 act
drwxrwxrwx  3 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 etc
drwxrwxrwx  3 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 log
drwxr-xr-x  3 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:06 tmp
drwxrwxrwx  2 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:06 work

[lots removed]

delegate/tmp/resolvy/ab3f2cfb31e801face8fa9c06c38ab4b/byname:
total 8
drwxrwxrwx  2 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 .
drwxrwxrwx  4 delegate  wheel  512 Jun 30 16:01 ..
-rw-rw-rw-  1 delegate  wheel   50 Jun 30 16:01 09
-rw-rw-rw-  1 delegate  wheel   49 Jun 30 16:01 12

This is of course not good from a security viewpoint. Can you please fix
this?

Another thing: If I start delegate as root, and it changes to another
user, some of these directories are made as root, and later delegate
claims it cannot create some other files.

Thank you in advance.
-Olaf.
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