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-rw-r--r--modules/pam_unix/support.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/modules/pam_unix/support.c b/modules/pam_unix/support.c
index 9284dbaa..19d72e66 100644
--- a/modules/pam_unix/support.c
+++ b/modules/pam_unix/support.c
@@ -586,7 +586,10 @@ static int _unix_run_helper_binary(pam_handle_t *pamh, const char *passwd,
if (geteuid() == 0) {
/* must set the real uid to 0 so the helper will not error
out if pam is called from setuid binary (su, sudo...) */
- setuid(0);
+ if (setuid(0) == -1) {
+ D(("setuid failed"));
+ _exit(PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL);
+ }
}
/* exec binary helper */