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authorJann Horn <jann@thejh.net>2016-01-20 15:00:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-20 17:09:18 -0800
commitcaaee6234d05a58c5b4d05e7bf766131b810a657 (patch)
tree6227530109dd91ab5447fbd2211f09bc636845a7 /fs
parent3dfb7d8cdbc7ea0c2970450e60818bb3eefbad69 (diff)
downloadlinux-caaee6234d05a58c5b4d05e7bf766131b810a657.tar.gz
ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks
By checking the effective credentials instead of the real UID / permitted
capabilities, ensure that the calling process actually intended to use its
credentials.

To ensure that all ptrace checks use the correct caller credentials (e.g.
in case out-of-tree code or newly added code omits the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS
flag), use two new flags and require one of them to be set.

The problem was that when a privileged task had temporarily dropped its
privileges, e.g.  by calling setreuid(0, user_uid), with the intent to
perform following syscalls with the credentials of a user, it still passed
ptrace access checks that the user would not be able to pass.

While an attacker should not be able to convince the privileged task to
perform a ptrace() syscall, this is a problem because the ptrace access
check is reused for things in procfs.

In particular, the following somewhat interesting procfs entries only rely
on ptrace access checks:

 /proc/$pid/stat - uses the check for determining whether pointers
     should be visible, useful for bypassing ASLR
 /proc/$pid/maps - also useful for bypassing ASLR
 /proc/$pid/cwd - useful for gaining access to restricted
     directories that contain files with lax permissions, e.g. in
     this scenario:
     lrwxrwxrwx root root /proc/13020/cwd -> /root/foobar
     drwx------ root root /root
     drwxr-xr-x root root /root/foobar
     -rw-r--r-- root root /root/foobar/secret

Therefore, on a system where a root-owned mode 6755 binary changes its
effective credentials as described and then dumps a user-specified file,
this could be used by an attacker to reveal the memory layout of root's
processes or reveal the contents of files he is not allowed to access
(through /proc/$pid/cwd).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/array.c2
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/base.c21
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/namespaces.c4
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index d73291f5f0fc..b6c00ce0e29e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 
 	state = *get_task_state(task);
 	vsize = eip = esp = 0;
-	permitted = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ | PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT);
+	permitted = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS | PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT);
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
 	if (mm) {
 		vsize = task_vsize(mm);
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 2cf5d7e37375..e665097c1da5 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_pid_cmdline_ops = {
 static int proc_pid_auxv(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 			 struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
 {
-	struct mm_struct *mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
+	struct mm_struct *mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
 	if (mm && !IS_ERR(mm)) {
 		unsigned int nwords = 0;
 		do {
@@ -430,7 +430,8 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 
 	wchan = get_wchan(task);
 
-	if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ) && !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
+	if (wchan && ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)
+			&& !lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname))
 		seq_printf(m, "%s", symname);
 	else
 		seq_putc(m, '0');
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ static int lock_trace(struct task_struct *task)
 	int err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
-	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH)) {
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS)) {
 		mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
@@ -697,7 +698,7 @@ static int proc_fd_access_allowed(struct inode *inode)
 	 */
 	task = get_proc_task(inode);
 	if (task) {
-		allowed = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
+		allowed = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
 		put_task_struct(task);
 	}
 	return allowed;
@@ -732,7 +733,7 @@ static bool has_pid_permissions(struct pid_namespace *pid,
 		return true;
 	if (in_group_p(pid->pid_gid))
 		return true;
-	return ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
+	return ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
 }
 
 
@@ -809,7 +810,7 @@ struct mm_struct *proc_mem_open(struct inode *inode, unsigned int mode)
 	struct mm_struct *mm = ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
 
 	if (task) {
-		mm = mm_access(task, mode);
+		mm = mm_access(task, mode | PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS);
 		put_task_struct(task);
 
 		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mm)) {
@@ -1860,7 +1861,7 @@ static int map_files_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 	if (!task)
 		goto out_notask;
 
-	mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
+	mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mm))
 		goto out;
 
@@ -2013,7 +2014,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_map_files_lookup(struct inode *dir,
 		goto out;
 
 	result = -EACCES;
-	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS))
 		goto out_put_task;
 
 	result = -ENOENT;
@@ -2066,7 +2067,7 @@ proc_map_files_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 		goto out;
 
 	ret = -EACCES;
-	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ))
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS))
 		goto out_put_task;
 
 	ret = 0;
@@ -2533,7 +2534,7 @@ static int do_io_accounting(struct task_struct *task, struct seq_file *m, int wh
 	if (result)
 		return result;
 
-	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) {
+	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) {
 		result = -EACCES;
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/proc/namespaces.c b/fs/proc/namespaces.c
index 1dece8781f91..276f12431dbf 100644
--- a/fs/proc/namespaces.c
+++ b/fs/proc/namespaces.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static const char *proc_ns_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!task)
 		return error;
 
-	if (ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) {
+	if (ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) {
 		error = ns_get_path(&ns_path, task, ns_ops);
 		if (!error)
 			nd_jump_link(&ns_path);
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ static int proc_ns_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int bufl
 	if (!task)
 		return res;
 
-	if (ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) {
+	if (ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) {
 		res = ns_get_name(name, sizeof(name), task, ns_ops);
 		if (res >= 0)
 			res = readlink_copy(buffer, buflen, name);