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Message-ID: <CALCETrVraEnTxq1iQmb9Gbtb1Jtj8W-8BYstPzzHfKW0wH1xVw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2014 14:49:02 -0800
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Kenton Varda <kenton@...dstorm.io>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [CFT][PATCH 2/8] userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid
 mapping has been setablished

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> setgroups is unique in not needing a valid mapping before it can be called,
> in the case of setgroups(0, NULL) which drops all supplemental groups.
>
> The design of the user namespace assumes that CAP_SETGID can not actually
> be used until a gid mapping is established.  Therefore add a helper function
> to see if the user namespace gid mapping has been established and call
> that function in the setgroups permission check.
>
> This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989, being able to drop groups
> without privilege using user namespaces.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>

>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h |  5 +++++
>  kernel/groups.c                |  4 +++-
>  kernel/user_namespace.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> index e95372654f09..8d493083486a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ extern const struct seq_operations proc_projid_seq_operations;
>  extern ssize_t proc_uid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
>  extern ssize_t proc_gid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
>  extern ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
> +extern bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns);
>  #else
>
>  static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
> @@ -87,6 +88,10 @@ static inline void put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
>  {
>  }
>
> +static inline bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
> +{
> +       return true;
> +}
>  #endif
>
>  #endif /* _LINUX_USER_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
> index 02d8a251c476..664411f171b5 100644
> --- a/kernel/groups.c
> +++ b/kernel/groups.c
> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/security.h>
>  #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> +#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
>  #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>
>  /* init to 2 - one for init_task, one to ensure it is never freed */
> @@ -217,7 +218,8 @@ bool may_setgroups(void)
>  {
>         struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();
>
> -       return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID);
> +       return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID) &&
> +               userns_may_setgroups(user_ns);
>  }
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> index b99c862a2e3f..27c8dab48c07 100644
> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> @@ -843,6 +843,20 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
>         return false;
>  }
>
> +bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
> +{
> +       bool allowed;
> +
> +       mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
> +       /* It is not safe to use setgroups until a gid mapping in
> +        * the user namespace has been established.
> +        */
> +       allowed = ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0;
> +       mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);
> +
> +       return allowed;
> +}
> +
>  static void *userns_get(struct task_struct *task)
>  {
>         struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> --
> 1.9.1
>



-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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