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authorJann Horn <jann@thejh.net>2016-03-22 14:25:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-22 15:36:02 -0700
commit378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a (patch)
treed16654900c79dd882ece48eaaeda3afcffd10e5a /fs/coredump.c
parent1333ab03150478df8d6f5673a91df1e50dc6ab97 (diff)
downloadlinux-378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a.tar.bz2
fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories
This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where all of the following conditions are fulfilled: - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2. - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.) - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by default using a distro patch.) Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules, causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process, allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with root privileges. To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/coredump.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/coredump.c30
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coredump.c b/fs/coredump.c
index 9ea87e9fdccf..47c32c3bfa1d 100644
--- a/fs/coredump.c
+++ b/fs/coredump.c
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
#include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
#include <linux/oom.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/path.h>
#include <linux/timekeeping.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -649,6 +652,8 @@ void do_coredump(const siginfo_t *siginfo)
}
} else {
struct inode *inode;
+ int open_flags = O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_NOFOLLOW |
+ O_LARGEFILE | O_EXCL;
if (cprm.limit < binfmt->min_coredump)
goto fail_unlock;
@@ -687,10 +692,27 @@ void do_coredump(const siginfo_t *siginfo)
* what matters is that at least one of the two processes
* writes its coredump successfully, not which one.
*/
- cprm.file = filp_open(cn.corename,
- O_CREAT | 2 | O_NOFOLLOW |
- O_LARGEFILE | O_EXCL,
- 0600);
+ if (need_suid_safe) {
+ /*
+ * Using user namespaces, normal user tasks can change
+ * their current->fs->root to point to arbitrary
+ * directories. Since the intention of the "only dump
+ * with a fully qualified path" rule is to control where
+ * coredumps may be placed using root privileges,
+ * current->fs->root must not be used. Instead, use the
+ * root directory of init_task.
+ */
+ struct path root;
+
+ task_lock(&init_task);
+ get_fs_root(init_task.fs, &root);
+ task_unlock(&init_task);
+ cprm.file = file_open_root(root.dentry, root.mnt,
+ cn.corename, open_flags, 0600);
+ path_put(&root);
+ } else {
+ cprm.file = filp_open(cn.corename, open_flags, 0600);
+ }
if (IS_ERR(cprm.file))
goto fail_unlock;