RE: vfs_getxattr_alloc() problem

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mimi Zohar [mailto:zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 1:52 AM
> To: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>; Matthew Garrett
> <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-integrity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Silviu Vlasceanu
> <Silviu.Vlasceanu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: vfs_getxattr_alloc() problem
> 
> [Cc'ing Matthew]
> 
> Hi Roberto,
> 
> On Tue, 2020-04-21 at 10:58 +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > Hi Mimi
> >
> > I found a problem in the calculation of the EVM digest.
> >
> > If an xattr is in the security domain, vfs_getxattr() calls xattr_getsecurity(),
> > which is implemented by LSMs. vfs_getxattr_alloc() instead calls directly
> > the filesystem function to read xattrs.
> >
> > The problem arises for example when you have a file with a portable
> > signature on the correct SELinux label (with \0) and you set
> security.selinux
> > manually:
> >
> > setfattr -n security.selinux -v "system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0" cat
> >
> > Although the length passed is 26 bytes (without \0), you get:
> >
> > # attr -l cat
> > Attribute "selinux" has a 27 byte value for cat
> >
> > which includes \0.
> >
> > From user space, evmctl does not complain (the signature is ok) because
> > it calculates the EVM digest with \0, but EVM verification fails (because it
> > calculates the digest without \0).
> >
> > Should this problem be fixed?
> 
> I don't seem to be having any problems verifying the EVM immutable &
> portable signatures.  To test, I've copied a properly labeled file
> twice, once with the "--preserve=xattr" and once without it.  I signed
> the properly labeled file with the EVM immutable & portable signature.
>  On the other file, I first set the selinux label before signing it.
> If there was a problem manually writing the SELinux label, the
> security.evm labels would be different, which they aren't.

[root@vm demo]# ls -lZ /bin/cat
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0 85520 Apr 24 16:20 /bin/cat
[root@vm demo]# evmctl sign -o -a sha256 --imahash --key $PWD/signing_key.pem /bin/cat -v -v
hash(sha256): 0404d3d78d8249317ed50056ec7d04da382488f36a6127f4e9161792d97f13e10bc6
name: security.selinux, size: 27
73797374656d5f753a6f626a6563745f723a62696e5f743a733000
no xattr: security.SMACK64
no xattr: security.apparmor
name: security.ima, size: 34
0404d3d78d8249317ed50056ec7d04da382488f36a6127f4e9161792d97f13e10bc6
no xattr: security.capability
calc_evm_hash:532 hmac_misc (24): 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000ed810000
hash(sha256): 331e36ce1b32374a22e12df28b58d79536c0ee97ba01451bd60343191c073b55
calc_keyid_v2:735 keyid: aecec286
keyid: aecec286
evm/ima signature: 520 bytes
...
[root@vm demo]# cat
^C
[root@vm demo]# setfattr -n security.selinux -v "system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0" /bin/cat
[root@vm demo]# evmctl verify -o -a sha256 --imahash /bin/cat -v -v
calc_keyid_v2:735 keyid: aecec286
keyid: aecec286
key 1: aecec286 /etc/keys/x509_evm.der
name: security.selinux, size: 27
73797374656d5f753a6f626a6563745f723a62696e5f743a733000
no xattr: security.SMACK64
no xattr: security.apparmor
name: security.ima, size: 34
0404d3d78d8249317ed50056ec7d04da382488f36a6127f4e9161792d97f13e10bc6
no xattr: security.capability
calc_evm_hash:532 hmac_misc (24): 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000ed810000
hash(sha256): 331e36ce1b32374a22e12df28b58d79536c0ee97ba01451bd60343191c073b55
/bin/cat: verification is OK
[root@vm demo]# cat
-bash: /usr/bin/cat: Permission denied
[root@vm demo]#

It fails because the actual xattr in the filesystem is:

name: security.selinux, size: 26
73797374656d5f753a6f626a6563745f723a62696e5f743a7330

Roberto

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