> On Jul 11, 2018, at 12:22 AM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> sfd = fsopen("ext4", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
>>> write(sfd, "s /dev/sdb1"); // note I'm ignoring write's length arg
>>
>> Imagine some malicious program passes sfd as stdout to a setuid
>> program. That program gets persuaded to write "s /etc/shadow". What
>> happens? You’re okay as long as *every single fs* gets it right, but that’s
>> asking a lot.
>
> Do note that you must already have CAP_SYS_ADMIN to be able to call fsopen().
If you’re not allowing it already, someone will want user namespace
root to be able to use this very, very soon.
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