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Message-ID: <5255D2FD.6050705@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2013 09:04:45 +1100
From:	Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, eldad@...refinery.com,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com,
	Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>,
	"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
	<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vsprintf: Check real user/group id for %pK

On 10/10/13 09:00, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 08:52 +1100, Ryan Mallon wrote:
>> Some setuid binaries will allow reading of files which have read
>> permission by the real user id. This is problematic with files which
>> use %pK because the file access permission is checked at open() time,
>> but the kptr_restrict setting is checked at read() time. If a setuid
>> binary opens a %pK file as an unprivileged user, and then elevates
>> permissions before reading the file, then kernel pointer values may be
>> leaked.
> 
> Please review the patch I sent you a little more.
> 
>> Fix this by adding a check that in addition to the current process
>> having CAP_SYSLOG, that effective user and group ids are equal to the
>> real ids. If a setuid binary reads the contents of a file which uses
>> %pK then the pointer values will be printed as NULL if the real user
>> is unprivileged.
> 
> []
> 
>> diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
> []
>> @@ -1312,11 +1313,37 @@ char *pointer(const char *fmt, char *buf, char *end, void *ptr,
>>  				spec.field_width = default_width;
>>  			return string(buf, end, "pK-error", spec);
>>  		}
> 
> Move the interrupt tests and pK-error printk
> into case 1:
> 
> It's the only case where CAP_SYSLOG needs to be
> tested so it doesn't need to be above the switch.

Like I said, I think it is useful to do the pK-error check anyway. It is
checking for internal kernel bugs, since if 'pK-error' ever gets
printed, then some kernel code is doing the wrong thing. Therefore, I
think it is useful to print it always (I would argue it even makes sense
when kptr_restrict=0). I decided to just leave that part of the code alone.

~Ryan

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