From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: 51327@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on-demand
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:37:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53706fa9-1458-fb5c-bd31-15ab555b59e9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba5ee273-9d0f-7baf-ef2e-d0b005f29ed0@gmail.com>
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On 10/21/2021 9:58 PM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Normally, when running `emacsclient --alternate-editor=""' with no Emacs
> server running, it will run `emacs --daemon' and then connect to it. In
> Emacs 28, it will also issue the following warning:
>
> Should XDG_RUNTIME_DIR='/run/user/1000' be in the environment?
> (Be careful: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is security-related.)
>
> However, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR *is* set in my environment, so it shouldn't be
> warning me about it.
>
> I believe this is due to the fix for bug#33847 (see commit
> 007744dd0404d6febca88b00c22981cc630fb8c0). That bug asked for
> emacsclient to look in both XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and TMPDIR to find the
> server socket, in order to accommodate the case where `emacs --daemon'
> is started when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset, but *is* set when running
> `emacsclient'.
Attached is a patch that should fix this by skipping the TMPDIR check
whenever a) we have an alternate editor and b) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set.
This has the benefit of supporting the use case in bug#33847 as well as
users who start the Emacs daemon on-demand.
The only flaw I can think of with this method is that it would still be
technically possible to perform a symlink attack against a user who runs
`emacs --daemon' explicitly with XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set, and then runs
`emacsclient' without an alternate editor set. However, this would
require the attacker to be able to kill the `emacs --daemon' process
somehow so that emacsclient falls back to looking in TMPDIR. I'm not
sure that's a realistic attack vector, but I thought I'd mention it for
completeness.
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From 6b8c7a9881b79254c618356a4dfa257812a6fe5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 12:22:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent symlink attacks in emacsclient when an alternate
editor is set
* lib-src/emacsclient.c (set_local_socket): Don't look in TMPDIR for a
socket if we have an alternate editor and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set
(Bug#51327).
---
lib-src/emacsclient.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib-src/emacsclient.c b/lib-src/emacsclient.c
index cff3cec2a7..1305226056 100644
--- a/lib-src/emacsclient.c
+++ b/lib-src/emacsclient.c
@@ -1466,7 +1466,10 @@ set_local_socket (char const *server_name)
? connect_socket (AT_FDCWD, sockname, s, 0)
: ENAMETOOLONG);
}
- if (sock_status == ENOENT)
+ /* Fall back to checking for a socket in TMPDIR unless we have
+ an alternate editor and XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set. In that
+ case, we want to bail out and spawn the alternate editor. */
+ if (!(xdg_runtime_dir && alternate_editor) && sock_status == ENOENT)
{
char const *tmpdir = egetenv ("TMPDIR");
if (tmpdir)
--
2.25.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-30 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-22 4:58 bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on-demand Jim Porter
2021-10-30 19:37 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2021-10-30 22:33 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-07 11:26 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-07 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-07 14:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-07 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-08 6:57 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-08 19:06 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-08 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-08 20:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-08 21:56 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-08 22:56 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-08 23:44 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 0:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-09 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 7:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-12-09 17:12 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 19:45 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-09 19:48 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-09 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-09 20:04 ` Paul Eggert
2022-09-10 5:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10 5:53 ` Paul Eggert via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-12-09 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-05 10:38 ` bug#51327: 28.0.60; emacsclient warns about XDG_RUNTIME_DIR when starting daemon on demand Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-05 17:54 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05 18:05 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-05 18:38 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-05 19:02 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 13:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-11-11 17:06 ` Jim Porter
2021-11-12 2:21 ` Paul Eggert
2021-12-07 14:58 ` Stefan Kangas
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