Allow harmless group-writability

Allow secure files (~/.ssh/config, ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, etc.) to be
group-writable, provided that the group in question contains only the file's
owner.  Rejected upstream for IMO incorrect reasons (e.g. a misunderstanding
about the contents of gr->gr_mem).  Given that per-user groups and umask 002
are the default setup in Debian (for good reasons - this makes operating in
setgid directories with other groups much easier), we need to permit this by
default.

Bug: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1060
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314347
Last-Update: 2017-10-04

Patch-Name: user-group-modes.patch

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/misc.c b/misc.c
index bdc06fdb3..5159e6692 100644
--- a/misc.c
+++ b/misc.c
@@ -58,8 +58,9 @@
 #include <netdb.h>
 #ifdef HAVE_PATHS_H
 # include <paths.h>
-#include <pwd.h>
 #endif
+#include <pwd.h>
+#include <grp.h>
 #ifdef SSH_TUN_OPENBSD
 #include <net/if.h>
 #endif
@@ -1029,6 +1030,55 @@ percent_expand(const char *string, ...)
 }
 
 int
+secure_permissions(struct stat *st, uid_t uid)
+{
+        if (!platform_sys_dir_uid(st->st_uid) && st->st_uid != uid)
+                return 0;
+        if ((st->st_mode & 002) != 0)
+                return 0;
+        if ((st->st_mode & 020) != 0) {
+                /* If the file is group-writable, the group in question must
+                 * have exactly one member, namely the file's owner.
+                 * (Zero-member groups are typically used by setgid
+                 * binaries, and are unlikely to be suitable.)
+                 */
+                struct passwd *pw;
+                struct group *gr;
+                int members = 0;
+
+                gr = getgrgid(st->st_gid);
+                if (!gr)
+                        return 0;
+
+                /* Check primary group memberships. */
+                while ((pw = getpwent()) != NULL) {
+                        if (pw->pw_gid == gr->gr_gid) {
+                                ++members;
+                                if (pw->pw_uid != uid)
+                                        return 0;
+                        }
+                }
+                endpwent();
+
+                pw = getpwuid(st->st_uid);
+                if (!pw)
+                        return 0;
+
+                /* Check supplementary group memberships. */
+                if (gr->gr_mem[0]) {
+                        ++members;
+                        if (strcmp(pw->pw_name, gr->gr_mem[0]) ||
+                            gr->gr_mem[1])
+                                return 0;
+                }
+
+                if (!members)
+                        return 0;
+        }
+        return 1;
+}
+
+int
 tun_open(int tun, int mode, char **ifname)
 {
 #if defined(CUSTOM_SYS_TUN_OPEN)
@@ -1786,8 +1836,7 @@ safe_path(const char *name, struct stat *stp, const char *pw_dir,
                 snprintf(err, errlen, "%s is not a regular file", buf);
                 return -1;
         }
-        if ((!platform_sys_dir_uid(stp->st_uid) && stp->st_uid != uid) ||
-            (stp->st_mode & 022) != 0) {
+        if (!secure_permissions(stp, uid)) {
                 snprintf(err, errlen, "bad ownership or modes for file %s",
                     buf);
                 return -1;
@@ -1802,8 +1851,7 @@ safe_path(const char *name, struct stat *stp, const char *pw_dir,
                 strlcpy(buf, cp, sizeof(buf));
 
                 if (stat(buf, &st) < 0 ||
-                    (!platform_sys_dir_uid(st.st_uid) && st.st_uid != uid) ||
-                    (st.st_mode & 022) != 0) {
+                    !secure_permissions(&st, uid)) {
                         snprintf(err, errlen,
                             "bad ownership or modes for directory %s", buf);
                         return -1;