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spice-gtk-0.18-3.fc18.src.rpm

From a1c11f19d166600174bba99b977dc8f9fdc2d6c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:15:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] acl helper: Use ruid of invoker rather than looking up
 euid in /proc

This way we avoid a race condition if the parent execve()s a setuid
program (possibly this program).

This is the same as the fix for pkexec which is CVE-2011-1485:
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692922
---
 gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper.c b/gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper.c
index 93b9b3a..3ed6cad 100644
--- a/gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper.c
+++ b/gtk/spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper.c
@@ -348,7 +348,8 @@ int main(void)
             FATAL_ERROR("Parent process was reaped by init(1)\n");
             return 1;
     }
-    subject = polkit_unix_process_new(parent_pid);
+    /* Do what pkexec does */
+    subject = polkit_unix_process_new_for_owner(parent_pid, 0, getuid ());
 
     stdin_unix_stream = g_unix_input_stream_new(STDIN_FILENO, 0);
     stdin_stream = g_data_input_stream_new(stdin_unix_stream);
-- 
1.8.3.1