Bug 469389 - Any user can send dbus messages to gdm that start a new X session
Summary: Any user can send dbus messages to gdm that start a new X session
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: jmccann
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-31 16:01 UTC by Kostas Georgiou
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:21 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-18 06:42:41 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
example "exploit" (328 bytes, text/x-python)
2008-10-31 16:03 UTC, Kostas Georgiou
no flags Details

Description Kostas Georgiou 2008-10-31 16:01:54 UTC
Any local user can call CreateTransientDisplay on the org.gnome.DisplayManager.LocalDisplayFactory interface which results in a new X session. 

Beyond that this will annoy the hell out of whoever is on the local machine I suspect that a loop that keeps sending the message can be an effective DOS.

Comment 1 Kostas Georgiou 2008-10-31 16:03:53 UTC
Created attachment 322103 [details]
example "exploit"

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-10-31 18:04:03 UTC
So at a minimum we should modify the dbus security policy in /etc/dbus-1/system.d to only allow at_console users to run it, but really we should be using policykit to levy access.

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2008-11-03 11:26:39 UTC
Is this interface used to spawn another local session when some user is already logged-in in X?  If so, restricting this to console users only sounds good.  I'm not sure how PolicyKit is expected to be used here.

Comment 4 Kostas Georgiou 2008-11-14 17:40:16 UTC
I at least have no idea at all as to what is using this interface. Probably just fast user switching but you never know.

I am not sure that I want my users to be able to start an unlimited amount of X servers even if they are in the console to tell the truth but this is a different story I guess.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:33:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:42:41 UTC
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