misc/101316: /bin/sh pwd bug after cd into restricted directory
Aragon Gouveia
aragon at phat.za.net
Thu Aug 3 12:00:38 UTC 2006
>Number: 101316
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: /bin/sh pwd bug after cd into restricted directory
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 03 12:00:34 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Aragon Gouveia
>Release: 6.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD <snip> 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Fri Jul 14 15:05:23 UTC 2006 root@<snip>:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/PAVLOV i386
>Description:
After attempting (and failing) to cd into a directory whose permissions restrict that access, the $PWD and output of pwd reflect that I am in that directory. But performing a file listing confirms that I am not.
>How-To-Repeat:
$ cd /var/db
$ ls -l
total 974
drwx------ 2 operator operator 512 Aug 3 11:44 entropy
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 ipf
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 953165 Jul 29 04:15 locate.database
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 12 09:10 mountdtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7 Aug 3 11:07 ntp.drift
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1024 Jul 18 11:04 pkg
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jul 18 10:59 ports
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 portsnap
drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 1024 Jul 14 09:21 sup
$ pwd
/var/db
$ cd ipf
cd: can't cd to ipf
$ pwd
/var/db/ipf
$ ls -l
total 974
drwx------ 2 operator operator 512 Aug 3 11:44 entropy
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 ipf
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 953165 Jul 29 04:15 locate.database
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 12 09:10 mountdtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7 Aug 3 11:07 ntp.drift
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1024 Jul 18 11:04 pkg
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jul 18 10:59 ports
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 portsnap
drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 1024 Jul 14 09:21 sup
$ cd ..
$ pwd
/var/db
$ ls -l
total 974
drwx------ 2 operator operator 512 Aug 3 11:44 entropy
drwx------ 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 ipf
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody wheel 953165 Jul 29 04:15 locate.database
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Jul 12 09:10 mountdtab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7 Aug 3 11:07 ntp.drift
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1024 Jul 18 11:04 pkg
drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Jul 18 10:59 ports
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 7 03:54 portsnap
drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 1024 Jul 14 09:21 sup
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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