On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Eric W. Biederman
>> <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
>>> readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
>>> read the file. This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if we are
>>> already attached there is no enforcement if a readonly executable
>>> is exec'd.
>>>
>>> Therefore do the simple thing and if there is a non-dumpable
>>> executable that we are tracing without privilege fail to exec it.
>>>
>>> Fixes: v1.0
>>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> fs/exec.c | 8 +++++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
>>> index fdec760bfac3..de107f74e055 100644
>>> --- a/fs/exec.c
>>> +++ b/fs/exec.c
>>> @@ -1230,6 +1230,11 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>>> {
>>> int retval;
>>>
>>> + /* Fail if the tracer can't read the executable */
>>> + if ((bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_ENFORCE_NONDUMP) &&
>>> + !ptracer_capable(current, bprm->mm->user_ns))
>>> + return -EPERM;
>>> +
>>
>> At the very least, I think that BINPRM_FLAGS_ENFORCE_NONDUMP needs to
>> check capable_wrt_inode_uidgid too. Otherwise we risk breaking:
>>
>> $ gcc whatever.c
>> $ chmod 400 a.out
>> $ strace a.out
>
> It is an invariant that if you have caps in mm->user_ns you will
> also be capable_write_inode_uidgid of all files that a process exec's.
I meant to check whether you *are* the owner, too.
>
> My third patch winds up changing mm->user_ns to maintain this invariant.
>
> It is also true that Willy convinced me while this check is trivial it
> will break historic uses so I have replaced this patch with:
> "ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm.
I think that's better.
>
> Eric
>
>
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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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