Files
rsync/t_chmod_secure.c
Andrew Tridgell 24852cda3d syscall+receiver: secure receiver-side do_chmod against symlink-race TOCTOU
CVE-2026-29518's fix routed the receiver's open() through
secure_relative_open(), but every other path-based syscall the
receiver runs on sender-controllable paths is vulnerable to the
same TOCTOU primitive. This commit closes the chmod variant.

Add do_chmod_at() that opens the parent of fname under
secure_relative_open() and uses fchmodat() against the resulting
dirfd. Gate the secure path on am_daemon && !am_chrooted (the same
gate use_secure_symlinks already uses for the receiver basis-file
open), so non-daemon callers and chrooted daemons keep the original
do_chmod() fast path.

Migrate the receiver-side do_chmod() call sites in delete.c,
generator.c, rsync.c, and xattrs.c.

Adds testsuite/chmod-symlink-race.test (with t_chmod_secure helper)
as regression coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 08:20:48 +10:00

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/*
* Test harness for do_chmod_at(). Confirms the symlink-TOCTOU
* primitive used by CVE-2026-29518 (and its incomplete-fix follow-up
* for chmod) is closed by do_chmod_at(): a parent directory component
* being a symlink that escapes the receiver's confinement must be
* rejected, while a parent symlink that resolves *within* the tree
* must still work (so legitimate dir-symlinks are not regressed).
*
* Not linked into rsync itself.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*/
#include "rsync.h"
#include <sys/stat.h>
int dry_run = 0;
int am_root = 0;
int am_sender = 0;
int read_only = 0;
int list_only = 0;
int copy_links = 0;
int copy_unsafe_links = 0;
extern int am_daemon, am_chrooted;
short info_levels[COUNT_INFO], debug_levels[COUNT_DEBUG];
static int errs = 0;
static void check(const char *label, int actual_rc, int expect_ok,
const char *path, mode_t expected_mode)
{
struct stat st;
int got_ok = (actual_rc == 0);
if (got_ok != expect_ok) {
fprintf(stderr, "FAIL [%s]: rc=%d errno=%d (%s), expected %s\n",
label, actual_rc, errno, strerror(errno),
expect_ok ? "success" : "rejection");
errs++;
return;
}
if (path && stat(path, &st) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "FAIL [%s]: stat(%s) failed: %s\n",
label, path, strerror(errno));
errs++;
return;
}
if (path && (st.st_mode & 07777) != expected_mode) {
fprintf(stderr,
"FAIL [%s]: %s mode is 0%o, expected 0%o\n",
label, path, st.st_mode & 07777, expected_mode);
errs++;
return;
}
fprintf(stderr, "OK [%s]\n", label);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <module-dir>\n", argv[0]);
return 2;
}
if (chdir(argv[1]) < 0) {
perror("chdir");
return 2;
}
/* Simulate the daemon-without-chroot deployment that do_chmod_at()
* defends. With am_daemon=0 or am_chrooted=1 the wrapper falls
* through to plain do_chmod() and the symlink-race test would be
* meaningless. */
am_daemon = 1;
am_chrooted = 0;
/* Test layout (all inside the directory we just chdir'd to):
*
* ./realdir/sentinel -- regular target file
* ./inside_link -> realdir -- legitimate dir-symlink within the tree
* ./escape_link -> ../trap -- attacker swap, target outside tree
* ../trap/sentinel -- the file the attacker wants to alter
*
* The shell wrapper that calls this helper has set both sentinel
* files to mode 0600 so we have a clean baseline to compare.
*/
/* Scenario A: legitimate parent dir-symlink, chmod must succeed. */
int rc = do_chmod_at("inside_link/sentinel", 0640);
check("A: legit dir-symlink within tree",
rc, 1, "realdir/sentinel", 0640);
/* Scenario B: parent symlink escapes the tree -- chmod must be
* rejected and the outside file's mode must be unchanged. */
rc = do_chmod_at("escape_link/sentinel", 0666);
check("B: parent symlink escapes tree (the attack)",
rc, 0, "../trap/sentinel", 0600);
/* Scenario C: plain relative path with no symlink components,
* regression check that the safe wrapper doesn't break the
* normal case. */
rc = do_chmod_at("realdir/sentinel", 0644);
check("C: plain relative path (regression check)",
rc, 1, "realdir/sentinel", 0644);
/* Scenario D: top-level file, no parent directory component.
* Falls back to do_chmod(); should succeed. */
rc = do_chmod_at("topfile", 0640);
check("D: top-level file, no parent component",
rc, 1, "topfile", 0640);
if (errs)
fprintf(stderr, "%d failure(s)\n", errs);
return errs ? 1 : 0;
}