Secure testing team - Oct 2010 - Bug#601229: unwritable /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf -> DoS or arbitrary file overwrite

Package: noip2
Version: 2.1.9-3
Severity: important
Tags: security

If:

1. /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf is not writable by root[0] and

2. /bin/sh points to bash and

3. noip2 hasn''t been started in such a weird configuration (i.e. 
/dev/shm/noip2-readwrite.conf does not exist yet)

a local user can prevent noip2 from starting by making 
/dev/shm/noip2-readwrite.conf a dangling symlink.

Worse still, if POSIXLY_CORRECT was set while running the init script, 
the attacker would be able to overwrite arbitrary files.


[0] Why would anyone want to do that?! Please revert patch for #524020, 
it doesn''t make sense.

-- 
Jakub Wilk
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