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Posted to mapreduce-issues@hadoop.apache.org by "Daryn Sharp (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2012/05/10 15:37:50 UTC
[jira] [Commented] (MAPREDUCE-2178) Race condition in
LinuxTaskController permissions handling
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2178?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13272323#comment-13272323 ]
Daryn Sharp commented on MAPREDUCE-2178:
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Would you be willing to please post a patch w/o all the build changes that moved the files? Even if only for sake of review? Otherwise it's hard to figure out what actually changed.
> Race condition in LinuxTaskController permissions handling
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-2178
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2178
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: security, task-controller
> Affects Versions: 0.22.0
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Devaraj Das
> Fix For: 0.22.1
>
> Attachments: 0001-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Fix-racy-check-for-config-file.patch, 0002-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Check-argc-after-checks-for-pe.patch, 0003-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Check-result-of-chdir.patch, ac-sys-largefile.patch, mapreduce-2178-test-compile-fix.txt, mr-2178-0.22.txt, mr-2178-error-on-launch-fail.txt, mr-2178-y20-sortof.patch, mr-2178.patch, racy-config-check-test-changes.txt
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> The linux-task-controller executable currently traverses a directory heirarchy and calls chown/chmod on the files inside. There is a race condition here which can be exploited by an attacker, causing the task-controller to improprly chown an arbitrary target file (via a symlink) to the user running a MR job. This can be exploited to escalate to root.
> [this issue was raised and discussed on the security@ list over the last couple of months]
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