Release date:
2026-10-13 11:50:26 UTC
Description:
* SECURITY UPDATE: TOCTOU symlink traversal in getfacl, setfacl and chacl
- debian/patches/CVE-2026-54370.patch: walk trees through directory file
descriptors and act on the final pathname component with symlink-safe
calls in tools/getfacl.c, tools/setfacl.c, tools/do_set.c and
tools/chacl.c
- the *at() ACL operations the hardened tools need are private helpers in
tools/acl_at.c, so libacl's public ABI and installed headers are
unchanged
- setfacl --restore is symlink-safe only when invoked with -P: without it
the backup's pathnames are still resolved by name, so stat, chown,
chmod and the ACL write still follow symlinks; upstream's warning about
that is built out with --disable-unsafe-restore-warnings, so --restore
output is unchanged for scripts that parse stderr
- getfacl -P and setfacl -P now fail with ELOOP on a symlink argument
instead of silently ignoring it
- in the recursive default mode a toplevel symlink-to-directory argument
is now descended into, where 2.2.53 applied to the toplevel entry only;
'setfacl -R ' therefore writes to the whole subtree
(upstream 2.4.0 walk_tree semantics)
- chacl on a symlink given on the command line now fails with "Operation
not supported" instead of acting on the symlink's target
- getfacl no longer strips a leading './' from pathnames, so
'getfacl -R ./dir' prints '# file: ./dir' for the toplevel entry
- the symlink-safe paths need /proc mounted: without it getfacl and
setfacl warn and then fail with EACCES ("Permission denied"), instead
of falling back to the ACL derived from the file mode, which would
drop every named entry and still exit successfully
- debian/rules: configure with --disable-unsafe-restore-warnings, and
skip test/root/permissions.test and test/root/setfacl.test on build
hosts whose build tree is not reachable by unprivileged users, where
they fail regardless of this patch
- CVE-2026-54370
Updated packages:
-
acl_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_amd64.deb
sha:154cbb7e9e96539b319a3cfb316fb04d49eb2976
-
libacl1_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_amd64.deb
sha:844cbe938ed2c8216d99b1b30832b1644f84879d
-
libacl1-dev_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_amd64.deb
sha:6821c3a19a0cead2df703c63fceaaa128c11b35a
-
acl_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_arm64.deb
sha:7b35aa9e5e455f263270605a93d92d9e6bdc3aa8
-
libacl1_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_arm64.deb
sha:4a0c1420fb5b6da7d7e1083bf292e2c001851b84
-
libacl1-dev_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_arm64.deb
sha:ec24fd8412bd816f8a65b90cd6c480f4f63105ed
-
acl_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_armel.deb
sha:0cb0de9678eae352a1c2a1fa28b1235183fb6f5a
-
libacl1_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_armel.deb
sha:f444eabca461171cff88df0ba1174c22497f780a
-
libacl1-dev_2.2.53-10+tuxcare.els1_armel.deb
sha:41f878910764e8283a632f02c502f7ff9e056e37
Notes:
This page is generated automatically and has not been checked for errors. For clarification or
corrections please contact the
CloudLinux Packaging Team.