linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] binfmt_*: scope path resolution of interpreters

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Message-ID: <CALCETrW2nn=omqJb4p+m-BDsCOhg+YZQ3ELd4BdhODV3G44gfA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 May 2019 14:20:23 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
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        Chanho Min <chanho.min@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] binfmt_*: scope path resolution of interpreters

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 1:41 PM Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 05:17:35AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > On 2019-05-06, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com> wrote:
> > > In my opinion, CVE-2019-5736 points out two different problems:
> > >
> > > The big problem: The __ptrace_may_access() logic has a special-case
> > > short-circuit for "introspection" that you can't opt out of; this
> > > makes it possible to open things in procfs that are related to the
> > > current process even if the credentials of the process wouldn't permit
> > > accessing another process like it. I think the proper fix to deal with
> > > this would be to add a prctl() flag for "set whether introspection is
> > > allowed for this process", and if userspace has manually un-set that
> > > flag, any introspection special-case logic would be skipped.
> >
> > We could do PR_SET_DUMPABLE=3 for this, I guess?
>
> Hmm... I'd make it a new prctl() command, since introspection is
> somewhat orthogonal to dumpability. Also, dumpability is per-mm, and I
> think the introspection flag should be per-thread.

I've lost track of the context here, but it seems to me that
mitigating attacks involving accidental following of /proc links
shouldn't depend on dumpability.  What's the actual problem this is
trying to solve again?