Merge ~morphis/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/pulseaudio:feature/disallow-module-loading into ~snappy-hwe-team/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/pulseaudio:master

Proposed by Simon Fels
Status: Rejected
Rejected by: Simon Fels
Proposed branch: ~morphis/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/pulseaudio:feature/disallow-module-loading
Merge into: ~snappy-hwe-team/snappy-hwe-snaps/+git/pulseaudio:master
Diff against target: 33 lines (+10/-1)
2 files modified
bin/pulseaudio (+2/-1)
tests/main/module-loading-disabled/task.yaml (+8/-0)
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System Enablement Bot continuous-integration Approve
Review via email: mp+314715@code.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Disallow module loading as recommended by upstream

Upstream recommends disabling module loading when running pulseaudio
in system mode to prevent users from loading malicious code into the
daemon.

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System Enablement Bot (system-enablement-ci-bot) wrote :
review: Needs Fixing (continuous-integration)
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review: Approve (continuous-integration)

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300690f... by Simon Fels

Disallow module loading as recommended by upstream

Upstream recommends disabling module loading when running pulseaudio
in system mode to prevent users from loading malicious code into the
daemon.

8bf1198... by Simon Fels

Correct indentation of export statement

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1diff --git a/bin/pulseaudio b/bin/pulseaudio
2index d9fb85f..8e23f97 100755
3--- a/bin/pulseaudio
4+++ b/bin/pulseaudio
5@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ EXTRA_ARGS=
6
7 if [ -e $SNAP_DATA/config/debug ] ; then
8 EXTRA_ARGS="$EXTRA_ARGS -vvvv"
9- export LIBASOUND_DEBUG=1
10+ export LIBASOUND_DEBUG=1
11 fi
12
13 $SNAP/usr/bin/pulseaudio \
14 --exit-idle-time=-1 \
15 --disallow-exit=yes \
16+ --disallow-module-loading \
17 --system \
18 -F $SNAP/etc/pulse/default.pa \
19 -p $SNAP/usr/lib/pulse-8.0/modules \
20diff --git a/tests/main/module-loading-disabled/task.yaml b/tests/main/module-loading-disabled/task.yaml
21new file mode 100644
22index 0000000..39798f8
23--- /dev/null
24+++ b/tests/main/module-loading-disabled/task.yaml
25@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
26+summary: Verify module loading is disabled
27+
28+description: |
29+ As we're running pulseaudio in system mode (see https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/)
30+ for more details we have module loading disabled to prevent any client from loading malicious code into the daemon.
31+
32+execute: |
33+ ! /snap/bin/pulseaudio.pactl load-module module-null-sink

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