File wpa_supplicant-log-file-permission.patch of Package wpa_supplicant

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File wpa_supplicant-log-file-permission.patch of Package wpa_supplicant

From 2fb45cd0370f1bc6d452df15dc1f7bf6575ed55c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 21:21:30 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] Create debug log file with more sane file permissions

Previously the file permissions for the debug log file were not explicitly set.
Instead it was implicitly relying on a secure umask, which in most cases would
result in a file that is world-readable. This is a violation of good
practices, since not very user of a file should have access to sensitive
information that might be contained in the debug log file.

This commit will explicitly set sane default file permissions in case
the file is newly created.

Unfortunately the fopen(3) function does not provide such a facility, so the
approach needs to be changed in the following way:

1.) The file descriptor needs to be created manually using the open(3)
function with the correct flags and the desired mode set.

2.) fdopen(3) can then be used on the file descriptor to associate a
file stream with it.

Note: This modification will not change the file permissions of any already
existing debug log files, and only applies to newly created ones.

Signed-off-by: Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de>
---
 src/utils/wpa_debug.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/utils/wpa_debug.c b/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
index 62758d864..5d2f7becb 100644
--- a/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
+++ b/src/utils/wpa_debug.c
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ static int wpa_to_android_level(int level)
 #ifndef CONFIG_NO_STDOUT_DEBUG
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
 static FILE *out_file = NULL;
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FILE */
 
@@ -548,10 +551,19 @@ int wpa_debug_open_file(const char *path)
 		last_path = os_strdup(path);
 	}
 
-	out_file = fopen(path, "a");
+	int out_fd = -1;
+	out_fd = open(path, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_APPEND, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP);
+	if (out_fd < 0) {
+		wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "wpa_debug_open_file: Failed to open "
+			    "output file descriptor, using standard output");
+		return -1;
+	}
+
+	out_file = fdopen(out_fd, "a");
 	if (out_file == NULL) {
 		wpa_printf(MSG_ERROR, "wpa_debug_open_file: Failed to open "
 			   "output file, using standard output");
+		close(out_fd);
 		return -1;
 	}
 #ifndef _WIN32
-- 
2.19.1

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