Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] setgid hardening

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [CC += linux-api@]
>
> Andy, this is an API change!

Indeed.  I should be ashamed of myself!

>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The kernel has some dangerous behavior involving the creation and
>> modification of setgid executables.  These issues aren't kernel
>> security bugs per se, but they have been used to turn various
>> filesystem permission oddities into reliably privilege escalation
>> exploits.
>>
>> See http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/
>> for a nice writeup.
>>
>> Let's fix them for real.
>>
>> Changes from v1:
>>  - Fix uninitialized variable issue (Willy, Ben)
>>  - Also check current creds in should_remove_suid() (Ben)
>>
>> Andy Lutomirski (2):
>>   fs: Check f_cred as well as of current's creds in should_remove_suid()
>>   fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory
>>
>>  fs/inode.c         | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>>  fs/internal.h      |  2 +-
>>  fs/ocfs2/file.c    |  4 ++--
>>  fs/open.c          |  2 +-
>>  include/linux/fs.h |  2 +-
>>  5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
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