Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2017-01-31

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory

From: Jeff Layton <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-31 11:43:23
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml

On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 18:49 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Currently, if you open("foo", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | ..., 02777) in a
directory that is setgid and owned by a different gid than current's
fsgid, you end up with an SGID executable that is owned by the
directory's GID.  This is a Bad Thing (tm).  Exploiting this is
nontrivial because most ways of creating a new file create an empty
file and empty executables aren't particularly interesting, but this
is nevertheless quite dangerous.

Harden against this type of attack by detecting this particular
corner case (unprivileged program creates SGID executable inode in
SGID directory owned by a different GID) and clearing the new
inode's SGID bit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 fs/inode.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 0e1e141b094c..f6acb9232263 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -2025,12 +2025,30 @@ void inode_init_owner(struct inode *inode, const struct inode *dir,
 			umode_t mode)
 {
 	inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
+	inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
+
 	if (dir && dir->i_mode & S_ISGID) {
I'm surprised the compiler doesn't complain about ambiguous order of ops
in the above if statement. Might be nice to add some parenthesis there
since you're in here, just for clarity.
+		bool changing_gid = !gid_eq(inode->i_gid, dir->i_gid);
+
 		inode->i_gid = dir->i_gid;
-		if (S_ISDIR(mode))
+
+		if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
 			mode |= S_ISGID;
-	} else
-		inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
+		} else if (((mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP))
+			   && S_ISREG(mode) && changing_gid
+			   && !capable(CAP_FSETID)) {
+			/*
+			 * Whoa there!  An unprivileged program just
+			 * tried to create a new executable with SGID
+			 * set in a directory with SGID set that belongs
+			 * to a different group.  Don't let this program
+			 * create a SGID executable that ends up owned
+			 * by the wrong group.
+			 */
+			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
+		}
+	}
+
 	inode->i_mode = mode;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_owner);
It's hard to picture any applications that would rely on the legacy
behavior, but if they come out of the woodwork, we could always add a
"make my kernel unsafe" command-line or compile time switch to bring it
back.

I think this is reasonable thing to do, but Michael K. is correct that
we should document the behavior changes in the relevant manpages.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <redacted>

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