linux-kernel - SECURITY PROBLEM: filesystem permiossion bypass on FD already opened

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Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:00:47 +0200
From:	NiTRo <nitroml@....homelinux.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	cve@...re.org
Subject: SECURITY PROBLEM: filesystem permiossion bypass on FD already opened

Hi to all,
    Sorry for my bad english.
    Just discovered this security problem on my Suse 11 (Linux xxxx
2.6.25.18-0.2-pae #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux) and my Slackware 10.1.0 (Linux xxxx 2.4.29-ow1 #1 Wed Feb 2
00:05:42 CET 2005 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux) with OpenWall patch.
If a FD is opened on a allowed file and then the permission is changed
the file is still redeable starting from the already read position to
the EOF.

This is the scenario:

<root> creates a file /tmp/aaaa with 666 permission an with the "test"
string inside it
        xxx:/tmp # echo test > /tmp/aaaa
        xxx:/tmp # chmod 666 /tmp/aaaa
<sb> opens this file hooking it in a shell as FD number 3
        sb@xxx:~> bash 3< /tmp/aaaa
<sb> read and prints it
        sb@xxx:~> read a <&3
        sb@xxx:~> echo $a
        test
        sb@xxx:~>
...anythig as expected...
<root> changes the permissions on file to 600 and changes its content
into "test o.o I cannot believe it..."
        xxx:/tmp # chmod 600 /tmp/aaaa
        xxx:/tmp # echo "test o.o I cannot believe it..." > /tmp/aaaa
<sb> continue to try reading the file
        sb@xxx:~> read a <&3
        sb@xxx:~> echo $a
        o.o I cannot believe it...
        sb@...t:~>
... and this is not expected...

Writing control seems to be working fine... "bash: echo: write error:
Bad file descriptor"

Hope this can help...

Thanks to all
Alessandro Soraruf
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