[PATCH] Polkit should use cryptographically strong cookies

[Andy Wingo]

Hi,

[Adding Colin and Miloslav onto Cc as they landed the change in polkit
that this patch modifies.]

Our polkit installation broke when we upgraded to 0.113 because of a bug
introduced when addressing a CVE:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90837#c20

I created this bug to address the issue:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94269

The issue includes this patch which fixes the issue for me:

  
https://github.com/wingo/polkit/commit/4c9a813f3fc1ada4fcce508d286e95f965a3002a

That patch is against polkit master.  This one is against 0.113:

  
https://github.com/wingo/polkit/commit/2b451ebf25f3d3f3f33c693213851a9ca45f1869

I admit still have a hard time understanding polkit's security model
around cookies, so I definitely need some review.  Maybe Mark, if you
have any moments?  Attached a patch to Guix to update our package to
include this patch.  I verify that it fixes the authentication problem
described in the original bug, but it needs more review :)

Thanks in advance for the scrutiny,

Andy

>From 81192534597bffd5cb1237f2c84bc0619c1c0fc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Wingo <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:31:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: polkit: Fix pkexec authentication

* gnu/packages/polkit.scm (polkit): Add patch from
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94269.
---
 gnu/packages/polkit.scm | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/polkit.scm b/gnu/packages/polkit.scm
index 0a4f70f..6adad30 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/polkit.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/polkit.scm
@@ -48,7 +48,16 @@
              (sha256
               (base32
                "109w86kfqrgz83g9ivggplmgc77rz8kx8646izvm2jb57h4rbh71"))
-             (patches (list (search-patch "polkit-drop-test.patch")))
+             (patches
+              (list (search-patch "polkit-drop-test.patch")
+                    (origin
+                      (method url-fetch)
+                      (uri "https://github.com/wingo/polkit/commit/\
+2b451ebf25f3d3f3f33c693213851a9ca45f1869.patch")
+                      (sha256
+                       (base32
+                        
"1dnix2pl9vj6gdv9rz0ja3gbijm632lfx7i0sbs0k8h358p06gpw"))
+                      (file-name 
"polkit-cryptographically-strong-cookies.patch"))))
              (modules '((guix build utils)))
              (snippet
               '(begin
-- 
2.6.3