Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 12 authors, 2019-08-06

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/5] Yama: Enforces noexec mounts or file executability through O_MAYEXEC

From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Date: 2018-12-12 17:09:35
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-security-module, lkml

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 9:18 AM Mickaël Salaün [off-list ref] wrote:
Enable to either propagate the mount options from the underlying VFS
mount to prevent execution, or to propagate the file execute permission.
This may allow a script interpreter to check execution permissions
before reading commands from a file.

The main goal is to be able to protect the kernel by restricting
arbitrary syscalls that an attacker could perform with a crafted binary
or certain script languages.  It also improves multilevel isolation
by reducing the ability of an attacker to use side channels with
specific code.  These restrictions can natively be enforced for ELF
binaries (with the noexec mount option) but require this kernel
extension to properly handle scripts (e.g., Python, Perl).

Add a new sysctl kernel.yama.open_mayexec_enforce to control this
behavior.  A following patch adds documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Trébuchet <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Thibaut Sautereau <redacted>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Mickaël Salaün <redacted>
---
[...]
+/**
+ * yama_inode_permission - check O_MAYEXEC permission before accessing an inode
+ * @inode: inode structure to check
+ * @mask: permission mask
+ *
+ * Return 0 if access is permitted, -EACCES otherwise.
+ */
+int yama_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
This should be static, no?
+{
+       if (!(mask & MAY_OPENEXEC))
+               return 0;
+       /*
+        * Match regular files and directories to make it easier to
+        * modify script interpreters.
+        */
+       if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+               return 0;
So files are subject to checks, but loading code from things like
sockets is always fine?
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+       if ((open_mayexec_enforce & YAMA_OMAYEXEC_ENFORCE_MOUNT) &&
+                       !(mask & MAY_EXECMOUNT))
+               return -EACCES;
+
+       /*
+        * May prefer acl_permission_check() instead of generic_permission(),
+        * to not be bypassable with CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH.
+        */
+       if (open_mayexec_enforce & YAMA_OMAYEXEC_ENFORCE_FILE)
+               return generic_permission(inode, MAY_EXEC);
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 static struct security_hook_list yama_hooks[] __lsm_ro_after_init = {
+       LSM_HOOK_INIT(inode_permission, yama_inode_permission),
        LSM_HOOK_INIT(ptrace_access_check, yama_ptrace_access_check),
        LSM_HOOK_INIT(ptrace_traceme, yama_ptrace_traceme),
        LSM_HOOK_INIT(task_prctl, yama_task_prctl),
@@ -447,6 +489,37 @@ static int yama_dointvec_minmax(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
        return proc_dointvec_minmax(&table_copy, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 }

+static int yama_dointvec_bitmask_macadmin(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+                                         void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp,
+                                         loff_t *ppos)
+{
+       int error;
+
+       if (write) {
+               struct ctl_table table_copy;
+               int tmp_mayexec_enforce;
+
+               if (!capable(CAP_MAC_ADMIN))
+                       return -EPERM;
Don't put capable() checks in sysctls, it doesn't work.
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