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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2013-04-14 11:44:04 -0700
committerAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2013-04-14 18:11:32 -0700
commit41c21e351e79004dbb4efa4bc14a53a7e0af38c5 (patch)
tree09f41257304634a6f2dcf48fd99504924a5344f1 /kernel/user_namespace.c
parente3211c120a85b792978bcb4be7b2886df18d27f0 (diff)
downloadlinux-41c21e351e79004dbb4efa4bc14a53a7e0af38c5.tar.gz
userns: Changing any namespace id mappings should require privileges
Changing uid/gid/projid mappings doesn't change your id within the
namespace; it reconfigures the namespace.  Unprivileged programs should
*not* be able to write these files.  (We're also checking the privileges
on the wrong task.)

Given the write-once nature of these files and the other security
checks, this is likely impossible to usefully exploit.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user_namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/user_namespace.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 5c16f3aa757a..e134d8f365dd 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -613,10 +613,10 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 	if (map->nr_extents != 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	/* Require the appropriate privilege CAP_SETUID or CAP_SETGID
-	 * over the user namespace in order to set the id mapping.
+	/*
+	 * Adjusting namespace settings requires capabilities on the target.
 	 */
-	if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !ns_capable(ns, cap_setid))
+	if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !file_ns_capable(file, ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Get a buffer */