Both packageslave.cpp and textedit.cpp have instances of possibly exploitable

race conditions associated to files. The big deal is that it is quite typical
to use strings of pathnames to track files. But because that does not leverage
the filesystem would be attackers may be able to exploit time lags in uses
of filesystem functions (like stat and chmod or open) to get files with
suspect data into the files that the applications are working with.

This commit closes that potential hole even though there are no known exploits.
Better safe then sorry. There is no change in the behavior of the apps.

2 files changed, 49 insertions, 44 deletions

diff --git a/core/apps/textedit/textedit.cpp b/core/apps/textedit/textedit.cpp
index 4bbc62b..1c81a55 100644
--- a/core/apps/textedit/textedit.cpp
+++ b/core/apps/textedit/textedit.cpp
@@ -735,153 +735,150 @@ void TextEdit::openFile( const QString &f ) {
 
   showEditTools();
     // Show filename in caption
   QString name = filer;
   int sep = name.findRev( '/' );
   if ( sep > 0 )
     name = name.mid( sep+1 );
   updateCaption( name );
 }
 
 void TextEdit::openFile( const DocLnk &f ) {
 //    clear();
 //    bFromDocView = true;
     FileManager fm;
     QString txt;
     currentFileName=f.file();
     odebug << "openFile doclnk " + currentFileName << oendl;
     if ( !fm.loadFile( f, txt ) ) {
           // ####### could be a new file
         odebug << "Cannot open file" << oendl;
     }
 //    fileNew();
     if ( doc )
         delete doc;
     doc = new DocLnk(f);
     editor->setText(txt);
     editor->setEdited( false);
     edited1=false;
     edited=false;
 
     doc->setName(currentFileName);
     updateCaption();
     setTimer();
 }
 
 void TextEdit::showEditTools() {
     menu->show();
     editBar->show();
     if(!useSearchBar)
         searchBar->hide();
     else
         searchBar->show();
     setWState (WState_Reserved1 );
 }
 
 /*!
   unprompted save */
 bool TextEdit::save() {
-                QString name, file;
+    QString name, file;
     odebug << "saveAsFile " + currentFileName << oendl;
     if(currentFileName.isEmpty()) {
         saveAs();
         return false;
     }
-                name = currentFileName;
-                if(doc) {
-                                file = doc->file();
-                                odebug << "saver file "+file << oendl;
-                                name = doc->name();
-                                odebug << "File named "+name << oendl;
-                } else {
-                                file = currentFileName;
+    if(doc) {
+        file = doc->file();
+        odebug << "saver file "+file << oendl;
+        name = doc->name();
+        odebug << "File named "+name << oendl;
+    } else {
+        file = currentFileName;
         name = QFileInfo(currentFileName).baseName();
-                 }
+    }
 
     QString rt = editor->text();
     if( !rt.isEmpty() ) {
         if(name.isEmpty()) {
             saveAs();
         } else {
             currentFileName = name;
             odebug << "saveFile "+currentFileName << oendl;
 
             struct stat buf;
             mode_t mode;
-            stat(file.latin1(), &buf);
+            QFile f(file);
+            fstat(f.handle(), &buf);
             mode = buf.st_mode;
 
             if(!fileIs) {
                 doc->setName( name);
                 FileManager fm;
                 if ( !fm.saveFile( *doc, rt ) ) {
-                                                                                QMessageBox::message(tr("Text Edit"),tr("Save Failed"));
+                    QMessageBox::message(tr("Text Edit"),tr("Save Failed"));
                     return false;
                 }
             } else {
                 odebug << "regular save file" << oendl;
-                QFile f(file);
-                                                                if( f.open(IO_WriteOnly)) {
-                                                                                QCString crt = rt.utf8();
-                                                                                f.writeBlock(crt,crt.length());
-                                                                } else {
-                                                                                QMessageBox::message(tr("Text Edit"),tr("Write Failed"));
-                                                                                return false;
-                                                                }
-
+                if( f.open(IO_WriteOnly)) {
+                    QCString crt = rt.utf8();
+                    f.writeBlock(crt,crt.length());
+                } else {
+                    QMessageBox::message(tr("Text Edit"),tr("Write Failed"));
+                    return false;
+                }
             }
             editor->setEdited( false);
             edited1=false;
             edited=false;
             if(caption().left(1)=="*")
-                                                                setCaption(caption().right(caption().length()-1));
-
+                setCaption(caption().right(caption().length()-1));
 
-            chmod( file.latin1(), mode);
+            fchmod( f.handle(), mode);
         }
         return true;
     }
     return false;
 }
 
 /*!
   prompted save */
 bool TextEdit::saveAs() {
 
     if(caption() == tr("Text Editor"))
         return false;
     odebug << "saveAsFile " + currentFileName << oendl;
 
     QString rt = editor->text();
     odebug << currentFileName << oendl;
 
     if( currentFileName.isEmpty()
         || currentFileName == tr("Unnamed")
         || currentFileName == tr("Text Editor"))
     {
         odebug << "do silly TT filename thing" << oendl;
         QString pt = rt.simplifyWhiteSpace();
         int i = pt.find( ' ' );
         QString docname = pt;
         if ( i > 0 ) docname = pt.left( i );
 
         while( docname.startsWith( "." ) )
             docname = docname.mid( 1 );
         docname.replace( QRegExp("/"), "_" );
         // Cut the length. Filenames longer than 40 are not helpful
         // and something goes wrong when they get too long.
         if ( docname.length() > 40 ) docname = docname.left(40);
 
         if ( docname.isEmpty() ) docname = tr("Unnamed");
 
         if(doc) doc->setName(docname);
 
         currentFileName=docname;
     }
 
 
     QMap<QString, QStringList> map;
     map.insert(tr("All"), QStringList() );
     QStringList text;
     text << "text/*";
     map.insert(tr("Text"), text );
     text << "*";
diff --git a/core/launcher/packageslave.cpp b/core/launcher/packageslave.cpp
index abbc610..965020e 100644
--- a/core/launcher/packageslave.cpp
+++ b/core/launcher/packageslave.cpp
@@ -169,122 +169,130 @@ void PackageHandler::addPackageFiles( const QString &location,
         s = ts.readLine();       // line of text excluding '\n'
         // for s, do link/mkdir.
         if ( s.right(1) == "/" ) {
         odebug << "do mkdir for " << s.ascii() << "" << oendl;
 #ifndef Q_OS_WIN32
         mkdir( s.ascii(), 0777 );
         //possible optimization: symlink directories
         //that don't exist already. -- Risky.
 #else
         d.mkdir( s.ascii());
 #endif
 
         } else {
 #ifndef Q_OS_WIN32
         odebug << "do symlink for " << s.ascii() << "" << oendl;
         symlink( (location + s).ascii(), s.ascii() );
 #else
         odebug << "Copy file instead of a symlink for WIN32" << oendl;
         if (!CopyFile((TCHAR*)qt_winTchar((location + s), TRUE), (TCHAR*)qt_winTchar(s, TRUE), FALSE))
           owarn << "Unable to create symlinkfor " << (location + s).ascii() << oendl;
 #endif
         }
     }
     f.close();
     }
 }
 
 void PackageHandler::addPackages( const QString &location )
 {
     // get list of *.list in location/usr/lib/ipkg/info/*.list
     QDir dir(location + "/usr/lib/ipkg/info", "*.list",  // No tr
          QDir::Name, QDir::Files);
     if ( !dir.exists() )
     return;
 
     QStringList packages = dir.entryList();
     for ( QStringList::Iterator it = packages.begin();
       it != packages.end(); ++it ) {
     addPackageFiles( location, *it );
     }
 }
 
 
 void PackageHandler::cleanupPackageFiles( const QString &listfile  )
 {
     QFile f(listfile);
 
     if ( f.open(IO_ReadOnly) ) {
-    QTextStream ts(&f);
-
-    QString s;
-    while ( !ts.eof() ) {        // until end of file...
-        s = ts.readLine();       // line of text excluding '\n'
-        // for s, do link/mkdir.
-        if ( s.right(1) == "/" ) {
-        //should rmdir if empty, after all files have been removed
-        } else {
+        QTextStream ts(&f);
+
+        QString s;
+        while ( !ts.eof() ) {        // until end of file...
+            s = ts.readLine();       // line of text excluding '\n'
+            // for s, do link/mkdir.
+            // @todo Right now we just move on if the name of the file we
+            // find is actually a directory. What we ought to do is check
+            // to see if the directory is empty and if so remove it.
+            if ( s.right(1) != "/" ) {
 #ifndef Q_OS_WIN32
-        odebug << "remove symlink for " << s.ascii() << "" << oendl;
-        //check if it is a symlink first (don't remove /etc/passwd...)
-        char buf[10]; //we don't care about the contents
-        if ( ::readlink( s.ascii(),buf, 10 >= 0 ) )
-             ::unlink( s.ascii() );
+                odebug << "remove symlink for " << s << oendl;
+                QFile symFile(s);
+                QFileInfo symFileInfo(symFile);
+                //check if it is a symlink first (don't remove /etc/passwd...)
+                if ( !symFileInfo.readLink().isNull())
+                     if (!symFile.remove())
+                         owarn << "Unable to remove symlink " << symFile.name()
+                               << " " << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << oendl;
 #else
-        // ### revise
-        owarn << "Unable to remove symlink " << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << "" << oendl;
+                // @todo If we actually want to be portable to other operating
+                // systems we ought to at least have a portable way of removing
+                // their notion of symlinks.
+                owarn << "Unable to remove symlink " << s " " << __FILE__
+                      << ":" << __LINE__ << oendl;
 #endif
+            }
         }
-    }
-    f.close();
+        f.close();
 
         //remove the list file
-    ::unlink( listfile.ascii() );
-
+        if (!f.remove())
+            owarn << "Unable to remove list file " << f.name() << " "
+                  << __FILE__ << ":" << __LINE__ << oendl;
     }
 }
 
 void PackageHandler::cleanupPackages( const QString &location )
 {
     // get list of *.list in location/usr/lib/ipkg/info/*.list
     QDir dir( "/usr/lib/ipkg/info/"+location, "*.list",  // No tr
           QDir::Name, QDir::Files);
     if ( !dir.exists() )
     return;
 
     QStringList packages = dir.entryList();
     for ( QStringList::Iterator it = packages.begin();
       it != packages.end(); ++it ) {
     cleanupPackageFiles( *it );
     }
 
     //remove the backup directory
     //###
 }
 
 void PackageHandler::prepareInstall( const QString& size, const QString& path )
 {
     // Check whether there will be enough space to install the next package.
     bool ok;
     unsigned int s = size.toUInt( &ok );
 
     if ( !ok )
     return;
 
     // Shamelessly stolen from the sysinfo application (Werner)
 #if defined(_OS_LINUX_) || defined(Q_OS_LINUX)
     struct statfs fs;
     if ( statfs( path.latin1(), &fs ) == 0 )
     if ( s > fs.f_bsize * fs.f_bavail ) {
         //odebug << "############### Not enough space left ###############" << oendl;
         mNoSpaceLeft = TRUE;
     }
 #endif
 }
 
 void PackageHandler::iProcessExited()
 {
     if ( currentProcess->normalExit() && currentProcess->exitStatus() == 0 )
     sendReply( "installDone(QString)", currentPackage );
     else {
 #ifndef QT_NO_COP
     QCopEnvelope e( "QPE/Desktop", "installFailed(QString,int,QString)" );