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  1. Hadoop Map/Reduce
  2. MAPREDUCE-2178

Race condition in LinuxTaskController permissions handling

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    • Bug
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.22.0
    • 0.22.1
    • security, task-controller
    • None
    • Reviewed

    Description

      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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        1. 0001-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Fix-racy-check-for-config-file.patch
          5 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        2. 0002-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Check-argc-after-checks-for-pe.patch
          1 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        3. 0003-Amend-MAPREDUCE-2178.-Check-result-of-chdir.patch
          1 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        4. ac-sys-largefile.patch
          0.9 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        5. mapreduce-2178-test-compile-fix.txt
          0.7 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        6. mr-2178.patch
          502 kB
          Benoy Antony
        7. mr-2178-0.22.txt
          522 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        8. mr-2178-022.patch
          525 kB
          Benoy Antony
        9. mr-2178-022.patch
          524 kB
          Benoy Antony
        10. mr-2178-022.patch
          605 kB
          Benoy Antony
        11. mr-2178-error-on-launch-fail.txt
          0.6 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        12. mr-2178-y20-sortof.patch
          505 kB
          Todd Lipcon
        13. racy-config-check-test-changes.txt
          4 kB
          Todd Lipcon

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              benoyantony Benoy Antony
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