Bug 1348626 (CVE-2015-8842) - CVE-2015-8842 systemd: improper use of tmpfiles.d to create persistent journal files
Summary: CVE-2015-8842 systemd: improper use of tmpfiles.d to create persistent journa...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-8842
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1323985
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Reported: 2016-06-21 15:43 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2019-09-29 13:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-21 16:04:18 UTC
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Description Cedric Buissart 2016-06-21 15:43:12 UTC
tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf in systemd before v230 does not explicitely set ACLs on persistent system.journal. This could allow improper permission set on the file.

seclist report:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/34

Suse BTS:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=972612

Fixed in commit:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/afae249efa4774c6676738ac5de6aeb4daf4889f

For additional information:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1397

Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2016-06-21 16:01:54 UTC
The persistent journal logging, the feature at fault, is disabled by default : Default journald storage is set to "auto". To run into the bug, the storage value needs to be changed to "persistent" to force journald to create the /var/log/journal folder on its own. 

In RHEL documentation, enabling persistent storage is suggested by simply creating the /var/log/journal directory, which does not trigger the bug :
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20.10.5. Enabling Persistent Storage
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1-Using_the_Journal.html


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