linux-kernel - [46/50] proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io

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Date:	Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:04:04 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Subject: [46/50] proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io

2.6.33-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>

commit 1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 upstream.

/proc/PID/io may be used for gathering private information.  E.g.  for
openssh and vsftpd daemons wchars/rchars may be used to learn the
precise password length.  Restrict it to processes being able to ptrace
the target process.

ptrace_may_access() is needed to prevent keeping open file descriptor of
"io" file, executing setuid binary and gathering io information of the
setuid'ed process.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 fs/proc/base.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2519,6 +2519,9 @@ static int do_io_accounting(struct task_
 	struct task_io_accounting acct = task->ioac;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	if (whole && lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
 		struct task_struct *t = task;
 
@@ -2641,7 +2644,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_
 	REG("coredump_filter", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_coredump_filter_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
-	INF("io",	S_IRUGO, proc_tgid_io_accounting),
+	INF("io",	S_IRUSR, proc_tgid_io_accounting),
 #endif
 };
 
@@ -2977,7 +2980,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tid_base_s
 	REG("make-it-fail", S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_fault_inject_operations),
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
-	INF("io",	S_IRUGO, proc_tid_io_accounting),
+	INF("io",	S_IRUSR, proc_tid_io_accounting),
 #endif
 };
 


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