Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 210621
Floppy disks are always mounted world readable
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:47:04 EST
Description of problem: If you insert a FAT/VFAT formatted floppy disk, and let hal (and whatever magic it triggers within gnome) mount it, all its files are world readable. I consider this a security risk, but I can see that it can be argued to be a reasonable default for standard single user desktop use cases. However, there is no user setting (in the "System->Preferences->Removable Drives And Media", or in /etc/sysconfig/ or anywhere else) to be found where that default can be changed. Additionally, there is hardly any documentation describing how to fix that problem without completely reverse engineering HAL and the Gnome media mounting magic. I use an USB floppy drive, and thus the world-readable mounting of the disk requires no further user action besides inserting the floppy disk into the drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): hal-0.5.8.1-4.fc6 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert floppy disk. 2. Mount it via Gnome UI. Actual results: drwxr-xr-x 2 $USER root 7168 Jan 1 1970 /media/floppy Expected results: drwx------ 2 $USER root 7168 Jan 1 1970 /media/floppy or drwxr-x--- 2 $USER root 7168 Jan 1 1970 /media/floppy Additional info: The actual mechanism behind the mounting is sufficiently complex that possibly other packages are the culprit or need to be adapted. Unfortunately, this is not easy to figure out for someone who grew up with /etc/fstab and running mount.
It looks like gnome-mount and insecure default gconf settings are the culprits. I am not sure this is the proper way to fix the problem, but at least this serves as a workaround: 1. Run gconf-editor. 2. Go to key directory /system/storage/default/options/vfat 3. Edit the key mount_options to contain these elements: shortname=lower uid= umask=0077 The former two will alread be there, you will just add the umask part. That's it - but some actor in the system should be doing the equivalent by default.
From what little I understand about the HAL&Co things, I would guess that in F-9 this would be PolicyKit's job.
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Problem still exists in rawhide: 1. Insert USB stick with FAT filesystem. 2. Wait a few seconds until locally logged in user A's hal/Gnome/whatever magic has mounted the new FS. 3. Have any user B logged in remotely via ssh read the data from A's USB stick. The default mount perms are rwxr-xr-x but should be rwx------. If this needs to be fixed in a package other than hal, please change the package. If it is not hal's fault, I have no idea how to find out which package may actually be the culprit.
Sometimes bugzilla ignores the checked checkbox "I am providing the requested information for this bug."
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