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Message-ID: <20110208042708.GG1457@outflux.net>
Date:	Mon, 7 Feb 2011 20:27:08 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] /proc/$pid/ leaks contents across setuid exec

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:43:15PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Sure, I know about O_CLOEXEC, but this is about protecting the
> > just-been-execed setuid process from the attacking process that has no
> > reason to set O_CLOEXEC.
> > 
> > Something like this needs to be enforced on the kernel side. I.e. these
> > file in /proc need to have O_CLOEXEC set in a way that cannot be unset.
> > 
> > > Changing the behavior in the core kernel will break userspace.
> > 
> > I don't think /proc/$pid/* needs to stay open across execs, does it? Or at
> > least the non-0444 files should be handled separately.
> 
> Actually, this seems like a more general kind of bug in proc rather than a 
> leaked fd.  Each child task should only see its own /proc/[pid] data.

Right, that's precisely the problem. The unprivileged process can read
the setuid process's /proc files.

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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