https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304318#c9
Ludwig Nussel changed:
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CC| |mkoenig@novell.com, security-team@suse.de,
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AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |ro@novell.com
--- Comment #9 from Ludwig Nussel 2007-10-05 02:08:01 MST ---
Previously mounting nfs volumes was done by mount itself. Now it's an external
helper. mount however drops privileges before calling external helpers.
Therefore mount.nfs can a) not bind to a privileged port and b) cannot issue
the final mount() syscall.
There are two possible solutions:
- make mount.nfs setuid root
- change mount to not drop privileges.
I guess the latter is not an option atm, therefore I'll open a separate audit
request for mount.nfs to be setuid root. It has yet to be decided whether we
then want to update permissions.rpm and nfs-utils.rpm for 10.3 to fix this bug.
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