Re: Using dyntransition to reduce privileges for Web application

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On 02/20/2011 06:31 AM, Scott Gifford wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Scott Gifford
> <sgifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>>  > Third, since my main goal here is to prevent processes from interacting
>>> with
>>>> each other inappropriately, I would like to prevent each HTTP worker
>>> from
>>>> reading any information from "/proc" for other HTTP workers.  Currently
>>> they
>>>> are allowed to do this, because they all run in the same domain.  Is
>>> there
>>>> any way to prevent this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> libvirt and sandbox use MCS separation for this.  Basically they grab
>>> random MCS labels to separate the processes.  I would suggest using two
>>> Categories, s0:c0-c1023,c0-1023 and make sure they are never the same.
>>>
>>> s0:c1,c43
>>> s0:c2,c43
>>>
>>> Is fine.
>>>
>>> s0:c1,c1 is not
>>>
>>> Then just set that context and you should get separation. if you need
>>> the processes to handle data it might get a little more complicated.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks!  I think I will need to learn a little more about this feature
>> before I can use it.  I will need a way to generate a unique category number
>> (maybe from the PID?), and the processes will need to handle some shared
>> data and code, so I will need to figure that out as well.
>>
> 
> OK, so I have started experimenting with this, but /proc is not behaving how
> I expect so far.
> 
> So I open up two shells.  In the first I run:
> 
> runcon -l s0-s0:c0,c1 bash
> 
> 
> and in the second:
> 
> runcon -l s0-s0:c0,c2 bash
> 
> 
> So both should have access to c1, but only the first will have access to c1
> and only the second will have access to c2.

s0-s0:c0,c2 should not have access to c1

but

s0-s0:c0,c2 should

> When I try this on files, it works:
> 
> shell1$ *id -Z*
> user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:-s0:c0,c1
> shell1$ *ls -lZ test.c1 test.c2*
> -rw-rw-r--  sgifford sgifford user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c1 test.c1
> -rw-rw-r--  sgifford sgifford user_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c2 test.c2
> shell1$ *head -1 test.c1 test.c2*
> ==> test.c1 <==
> Category 1
> head: cannot open `test.c2' for reading: Permission denied
> 
> 
> But on /proc files it does not:
> 
> shell1$ *id -Z*
> user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:-s0:c0,c1
> shell1$ *ls -lZ /proc/10961/maps*
> -r--r--r--  sgifford sgifford user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:-s0:c0,c2
> /proc/10961/maps
> shell1$ *head -1 /proc/10961/maps*
> 002ac000-002ad000 r-xp 002ac000 00:00 0          [vdso]

from /policy/mcs:

# Note:
#  - getattr on dirs/files is not constrained.
#  - /proc/pid operations are not constrained.

so that explains the above

> 
> That is, even though "ls -lZ" indicates that the maps file for PID 10961
> requires c2 and my shell does not have c2, still I am allowed to read this
> file.
> 
> I must be misunderstanding something here.  Any thoughts or hints?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -----Scott.
> 
> 
> 
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