Adding checks for fd omission

Adding function check_fds to new file fd.c. The function check_fds
should be called in every setuid/setgid program.

Co-developed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>

lib/Makefile.am

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ libshadow_la_SOURCES = \
 	faillog.h \
 	failure.c \
 	failure.h \
+	fd.c \
 	fields.c \
 	find_new_gid.c \
 	find_new_uid.c \

lib/fd.c

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024, Skyler Ferrante <sjf5462@rit.edu>
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+/**
+ * To protect against file descriptor omission attacks, we open the std file
+ * descriptors with /dev/null if they are not already open. Code is based on
+ * fix_fds from sudo.c.
+ */
+
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "prototypes.h"
+
+static void check_fd(int fd);
+
+void
+check_fds(void)
+{
+	/**
+	 * Make sure stdin, stdout, stderr are open
+	 * If they are closed, set them to /dev/null
+	 */
+	check_fd(STDIN_FILENO);
+	check_fd(STDOUT_FILENO);
+	check_fd(STDERR_FILENO);
+}
+
+static void
+check_fd(int fd)
+{
+	int  devnull;
+
+	if (fcntl(fd, F_GETFL, 0) != -1)
+		return;
+
+	devnull = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
+	if (devnull != fd)
+		abort();
+}

lib/prototypes.h

@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ extern void initenv (void);
 extern void set_env (int, char *const *);
 extern void sanitize_env (void);
 
+/* fd.c */
+extern void check_fds (void);
+
 /* fields.c */
 extern void change_field (char *, size_t, const char *);
 extern int valid_field (const char *, const char *);

src/chage.c

@@ -768,13 +768,12 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	gid_t rgid;
 	const struct passwd *pw;
 
-	/*
-	 * Get the program name so that error messages can use it.
-	 */
+	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
+
 	log_set_progname(Prog);
 	log_set_logfd(stderr);
 
-	sanitize_env ();
 	(void) setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	(void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	(void) textdomain (PACKAGE);

src/chfn.c

@@ -620,10 +620,12 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	char                 *user;
 	const struct passwd  *pw;
 
+	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
+
 	log_set_progname(Prog);
 	log_set_logfd(stderr);
 
-	sanitize_env ();
 	(void) setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	(void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	(void) textdomain (PACKAGE);

src/chsh.c

@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	const struct passwd *pw;	/* Password entry from /etc/passwd   */
 
 	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
 
 	log_set_progname(Prog);
 	log_set_logfd(stderr);

src/expiry.c

@@ -125,11 +125,12 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	struct passwd *pwd;
 	struct spwd *spwd;
 
+	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
+
 	log_set_progname(Prog);
 	log_set_logfd(stderr);
 
-	sanitize_env ();
-
 	/*
 	 * Start by disabling all of the keyboard signals.
 	 */

src/gpasswd.c

@@ -930,6 +930,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 #endif
 
 	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
+
 	(void) setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	(void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	(void) textdomain (PACKAGE);

src/newgrp.c

@@ -390,6 +390,9 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 #ifdef WITH_AUDIT
 	audit_help_open ();
 #endif
+
+	check_fds ();
+
 	(void) setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	(void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	(void) textdomain (PACKAGE);

src/passwd.c

@@ -728,6 +728,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	const struct spwd *sp;	/* Shadow file entry for user   */
 
 	sanitize_env ();
+	check_fds ();
 
 	log_set_progname(Prog);
 	log_set_logfd(stderr);

src/su.c

@@ -1007,6 +1007,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
 	int ret;
 #endif				/* USE_PAM */
 
+	check_fds ();
+
 	(void) setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
 	(void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
 	(void) textdomain (PACKAGE);