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Re: worring about YaST in SuSE 9.3 and maybe lower
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus Meissner)
Fri Sep 16 18:46:05 2005
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:03:49 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
To: innate@gmx.de
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:01:19AM -0000, innate@gmx.de wrote:
> author: l0om
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> worring about YaST in SuSE 9.3 and maybe lower
>
> iam wondering about the installation routine from SuSE linux 9.3 and maybe some lower verisons.
> YaST is creating a directory named "/var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x0000000X/DATA/descr" which is worldwritable by default. the directory contains data like packagenames and pathnames needed for YaST if you install software. for normal this directory shouldnt be writable by everyone because if you change the install media a new "IS_CACHE_0x0000000X/DATA/descr" is created which isnt worldwritable.
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> so you may be able to poising the data which is viewd by root while he is trying to install data. the following data may be changed for example (file "packages"):
I cannot reproduce this directory being worldwriteable here.
What kind of installation source did you use? CD? ftp?
Ciao, Marcus
