linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] security: add SECURE_KEEP_FSUID to preserve fsuid/fsgid across execve

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1906141445010.7150@namei.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:09:43 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@...mai.com>
cc:     Serge Hallyn <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] security: add SECURE_KEEP_FSUID to preserve
 fsuid/fsgid across execve

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Igor Lubashev wrote:

> I've posted this in March but received no response. Reposting.
> 
> This patch introduces SECURE_KEEP_FSUID to allow fsuid/fsgid to be
> preserved across execve. It is currently impossible to execve a
> program such that effective and filesystem uid differ.
> 
> The need for this functionality arose from a desire to allow certain
> non-privileged users to run perf. To do this, we install perf without
> set-uid-root and have a set-uid-root wrapper decide who is allowed to
> run perf (and with what arguments).
> 
> The wrapper must execve perf with real and effective root uid, because
> perf and KASLR require this. However, that presently resets fsuid to
> root, giving the user ability to read and overwrite any file owned by
> root (perf report -i, perf record -o). Also, perf record will create
> perf.data that cannot be deleted by the user.
> 
> We cannot reset /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid to a permissive
> level, since we must be selective which users have the permissions.
> 
> Of course, we could fix our problem by a patch to perf to allow
> passing a username on the command line and having perf execute
> setfsuid before opening files. However, perf is not the only program
> that uses kernel features that require root uid/euid, so a general
> solution that does not involve updating all such programs seems
> warranted.

This seems like a very specific corner case, depending on fsuid!=0 for an 
euid=0 process, along with a whitelist policy for perf arguments. It would 
be a great way to escalate to root via a bug in an executed app or via a 
wrapper misconfiguration.

It also adds complexity to kernel credential handling -- it's yet another 
thing to consider when trying to reason about this.

Have you considered the example security configuration in 
Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst ?

What are some other examples of programs that could utilize this scheme?



-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>