Bug 432062

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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I am wondering whether there are plans to do anything about this?

So, a couple of observations:

I dont know of anybody using mock in a situation where they dont trust their
users. We have explicitly disclaimed any guarantees of security for this
scenario, as mock has not been audited for use by untrusted users, and there are
currently *trivial* methods that users with access to mock can use to elevate
privs ("mock shell" can trivially be used to elevate privs.)

That being said, I dont think it is unreasonable to add a patch to set the
CCACHE_UMASK to make it less likely for users to be able to overwrite each
other's cache files. If you attach a well-coded patch to set this, then I dont
see any blocking issue to accepting it.

Created attachment 315303 [details]
Do not use shared ccache caches by default

The mode 0775 alone can be a security issue for non (root,root) owned files.  I think it's very reasonable to expect that the sequence:

   %build
   umask 022
   gcc -o foo [...]

   %install
   umask 022
   cp -p foo $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}

   %files
   %defattr(-,root,somegroup,-)
   %{_bindir}/foo

...would result in /usr/bin/foo, owned by (root,somegroup), mode 0755 being in the resulting binary package.  But due to the issue at hand, /usr/bin/foo would be unexpectedly writable by the "somegroup" group.

I started patching, results attached.  It works otherwise except that I made the mistake of using chrootuser (== mockbuild) when I would have wanted the real username of who is running mock.  Looks like the real username is not currently available in the object model so some more work would be needed.  Also if the cache is not shared by default, its default size could be lowered to something less than 4G.

Michael, do you want to take the above patch?

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Clearing the NeedInfo as I have no clue why info is being requested from me.

Pulled in Ville's patch for testing, looking at adding to mock for the 1.1.10 release.

Hmmph. I see what Ville was talking about in that the only username we have available in the chroot is 'mockuser'. Not sure if this is worth the effort of adding real usernames to the chroot password file. 

Anyone have an opinion here? If I don't hear anything in a few days I'll probably close this as NOTABUG.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Closing per #12. If somebody have better idea or even patch, then feel free to reopen.

This was actually fixed in bug 1168116.