news: Add entry for security issue with /var/guix/profiles/per-user.
* etc/news.scm: Add entry for security issue in multi-user setups.
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							|  | @ -9,6 +9,28 @@ | ||||||
| (channel-news | (channel-news | ||||||
|  (version 0) |  (version 0) | ||||||
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|  |  (entry (commit "81c580c8664bfeeb767e2c47ea343004e88223c7") | ||||||
|  |         (title (en "Insecure @file{/var/guix/profiles/per-user} permissions")) | ||||||
|  |         (body | ||||||
|  |          (en "The default user profile, @file{~/.guix-profile}, points to | ||||||
|  | @file{/var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER}.  Until now, | ||||||
|  | @file{/var/guix/profiles/per-user} was world-writable, allowing the | ||||||
|  | @command{guix} command to create the @code{$USER} sub-directory. | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | On a multi-user system, this allowed a malicious user to create and populate | ||||||
|  | that @code{$USER} sub-directory for another user that had not yet logged in. | ||||||
|  | Since @code{/var/@dots{}/$USER} is in @code{$PATH}, the target user could end | ||||||
|  | up running attacker-provided code.  See | ||||||
|  | @uref{https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37744} for more information. | ||||||
|  | 
 | ||||||
|  | This is now fixed by letting @command{guix-daemon} create these directories on | ||||||
|  | behalf of users and removing the world-writable permissions on | ||||||
|  | @code{per-user}.  On multi-user systems, we recommend updating the daemon now. | ||||||
|  | To do that, run @code{sudo guix pull} if you're on a foreign distro, or run | ||||||
|  | @code{guix pull && sudo guix system reconfigure @dots{}} on Guix System.  In | ||||||
|  | both cases, make sure to restart the service afterwards, with @code{herd} or | ||||||
|  | @code{systemctl}."))) | ||||||
|  | 
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|  (entry (commit "5f3f70391809f8791c55c05bd1646bc58508fa2c") |  (entry (commit "5f3f70391809f8791c55c05bd1646bc58508fa2c") | ||||||
|         (title (en "GNU C Library upgraded") |         (title (en "GNU C Library upgraded") | ||||||
|                (de "GNU-C-Bibliothek aktualisiert") |                (de "GNU-C-Bibliothek aktualisiert") | ||||||
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