Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-12-09

Re: [CFT][PATCH 3/8] userns: Don't allow unprivileged creation of gid mappings

From: Andy Lutomirski <hidden>
Date: 2014-12-09 23:00:50
Also in: linux-man, lkml, stable

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Eric W. Biederman
[off-list ref] wrote:
As any gid mapping will allow and must allow for backwards
compatibility dropping groups don't allow any gid mappings to be
established without CAP_SETGID in the parent user namespace.

For a small class of applications this change breaks userspace
and removes useful functionality.  This small class of applications
includes tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivilged-remount-test.c

Most of the removed functionality will be added back with the addition
of a one way knob to disable setgroups.  Once setgroups is disabled
setting the gid_map becomes as safe as setting the uid_map.

For more common applications that set the uid_map and the gid_map
with privilege this change will have no affect.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
This is part of a fix for CVE-2014-8989.

Cc: stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
---
 kernel/user_namespace.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 27c8dab48c07..1ce6d67c07b7 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -821,10 +821,6 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
                        kuid_t uid = make_kuid(ns->parent, id);
                        if (uid_eq(uid, file->f_cred->fsuid))
                                return true;
-               } else if (cap_setid == CAP_SETGID) {
-                       kgid_t gid = make_kgid(ns->parent, id);
-                       if (gid_eq(gid, file->f_cred->fsgid))
-                               return true;
                }
        }

--
1.9.1


-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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