Bug 114616
| Summary: | insecure PATH variable set by login as root | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Thilo Müller <thilo.mueller> |
| Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | herrmann, laroche, ralf |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-02-24 15:54:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Typically /usr/local/*bin are placed ahead in the path to allow local overrides of programs that come with the OS. Because only root can write to /usr/local/* on a default install, this doesn't pose a security risk. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: When logging in as root the /usr/local directories are inserted in the PATH variable before /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/bin /bin Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login as root 2.echo $PATH Actual Results: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin Expected Results: 3./usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin The /usr/local directories should be used last in the PATH variable Additional info: