From 980692e6b9cfe4a34e22f566e0981a8c549e4348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Clasen Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 21:09:25 +0000 Subject: Avoid deleting the root user The check we have in place against deleting the root user can be tricked by exploiting the fact that we are checking a gint64, and then later cast it to a uid_t. This can be seen with the following test, which will delete your root account: qdbus --system org.freedesktop.Accounts /org/freedesktop/Accounts \ org.freedesktop.Accounts.DeleteUser -9223372036854775808 true Found with the dfuzzer tool, https://github.com/matusmarhefka/dfuzzer --- diff --git a/src/daemon.c b/src/daemon.c index ea75190..9c7001b 100644 --- a/src/daemon.c +++ b/src/daemon.c @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ daemon_uncache_user (AccountsAccounts *accounts, } typedef struct { - gint64 uid; + uid_t uid; gboolean remove_files; } DeleteUserData; @@ -1309,13 +1309,13 @@ daemon_delete_user (AccountsAccounts *accounts, Daemon *daemon = (Daemon*)accounts; DeleteUserData *data; - if (uid == 0) { + if ((uid_t)uid == 0) { throw_error (context, ERROR_FAILED, "Refuse to delete root user"); return TRUE; } data = g_new0 (DeleteUserData, 1); - data->uid = uid; + data->uid = (uid_t)uid; data->remove_files = remove_files; daemon_local_check_auth (daemon, -- cgit v0.9.0.2-2-gbebe