[Bug 727837] Re: dhcp3-server fails to drop privileges properly

[Clint Byrum]

Hello Juha, or anyone else affected,

Accepted isc-dhcp into precise-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/isc-
dhcp/4.1.ESV-R4-0ubuntu5.6 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this update
out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please change the bug tag from
verification-needed to verification-done.  If it does not, change the
tag to verification-failed.  In either case, details of your testing
will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  dhcp3-server fails to drop privileges properly

Status in “dhcp3” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “isc-dhcp” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dhcp3” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed
Status in “isc-dhcp” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “isc-dhcp” source package in Oneiric:
  New
Status in “isc-dhcp” source package in Precise:
  Fix Committed
Status in “isc-dhcp” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released
Status in “dhcp3” source package in Hardy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dhcp3-server

  In debian/patches/droppriv.dpatch there is some privilege dropping
  code in function drop_privileges(). This fails to drop privileges of
  root-group and does not initialize the groups properly.

  One can test this by adding:

  on commit {
    execute("/usr/local/bin/dhcp_group_test");
  }

  to /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf, and then write
  /usr/local/bin/dhcp_group_test to log the output of "id" to some file.
  (You may wish to turn apparmor off for this test, but it can be done
  with it as well). The output should read:

  uid=112(dhcpd) gid=120(dhcpd) groups=0(root)

  This means that dhcp will retain the root-group privileges and is
  missing other groups that a user may have possibly defined for it.

  The fix would be to use either initgroups() or setgroups() function
  properly in drop_privileges(). Doing this should also fix this bug:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/341817

  This is:

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  dhcp3-server:
    Installed: 3.1.3-2ubuntu3
    Candidate: 3.1.3-2ubuntu3
    Version table:
   *** 3.1.3-2ubuntu3 0
          500 http://mirror.opinsys.fi/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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