diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py index 65303d29f51f8f..b08144f7a1a169 100644 --- a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py +++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py @@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ def arbitrary_address(family): if family == 'AF_INET': return ('localhost', 0) elif family == 'AF_UNIX': - # Prefer abstract sockets if possible to avoid problems with the address - # size. When coding portable applications, some implementations have - # sun_path as short as 92 bytes in the sockaddr_un struct. - if util.abstract_sockets_supported: - return f"\0listener-{os.getpid()}-{next(_mmap_counter)}" return tempfile.mktemp(prefix='listener-', dir=util.get_temp_dir()) elif family == 'AF_PIPE': return tempfile.mktemp(prefix=r'\\.\pipe\pyc-%d-%d-' % diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-09-07-10-42-00.gh-issue-97514.Yggdsl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-09-07-10-42-00.gh-issue-97514.Yggdsl.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000000..02d95b570520df --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2022-09-07-10-42-00.gh-issue-97514.Yggdsl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +On Linux the :mod:`multiprocessing` module returns to using filesystem backed +unix domain sockets for communication with the *forkserver* process instead of +the Linux abstract socket namespace. Only code that chooses to use the +:ref:`"forkserver" start method ` is affected. + +Abstract sockets have no permissions and could allow any user on the system in +the same `network namespace +`_ (often the +whole system) to inject code into the multiprocessing *forkserver* process. +This was a potential privilege escalation. Filesystem based socket permissions +restrict this to the *forkserver* process user as was the default in Python 3.8 +and earlier. + +This prevents Linux `CVE-2022-42919 +`_.