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Simon McVittie
1f716452e7 bus driver: factor out bus_driver_check_caller_is_privileged, and allow root
Unlike the initial mitigation for CVE-2014-8148, we now allow
uid 0 to call UpdateActivationEnvironment. There's no point in root
doing that, but there's also no reason why it's particularly bad -
if an attacker is uid 0 we've already lost - and it simplifies
use of this function for future things that do want to be callable
by root, like BecomeMonitor for #46787.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88810
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall
2015-02-03 16:19:11 +00:00
Simon McVittie
98ae1149ad Add a test for uid-controlled permissions
This is technical debt from mitigating CVE-2014-8148, which should
really have had a regression test at the time.

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88810
Reviewed-by: Philip Withnall
2015-02-03 16:19:08 +00:00