Quoting Crispin Cowan (crispin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > Quoting Crispin Cowan (crispin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > >> I find that ptrace, specifically CAP_SYS_PTRACE, is overloaded. AppArmor > >> is having problems because we have to choose between granting > >> cap_sys_ptrace, or not allowing the process to read /proc/pid/self & > >> such like. So there, the problem is that we have to grant too much power > >> to a process to just let it read some /proc stuff about itself. > >> > >> Here the problem appears to be the other way. cap_sys_ptrace is powerful > >> enough to mess with other user's processes on the system, but if ptrace > >> gives you hijack, then that seems to give you the power to control > >> processes in someone else's namespace. > >> > > The user namespace patchset I'm working on right now to start having > > signals respect user namespaces introduces CAP_NS_OVERRIDE. Once that > > is in, then hijack would require CAP_NS_OVERRIDE|CAP_SYS_PTRACE. > > > > Of course, since we're considering only allowing HIJACK_NS which is > > only allowed into a different namespace, hijack would then always > > require CAP_NS_OVERRIDE... > > > > Does that suffice? > > > I think that CAP_NS_OVERRIDE|CAP_SYS_PTRACE is a problem because of the Oops, yeah I meant &. > | making ptrace more powerful than it is now. If you make it > CAP_NS_OVERRIDE only, then the problem goes away. I was seeing CAP_NS_OVERRIDE as more of a modifier to other capabilities. So (CAP_NS_OVERRIDE&CAP_KILL) means you can signal processes in another namespace. (CAP_NS_OVERRIDE&CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) means you can override (currently nonexistent) DAC file access checks in another user namespace. (CAP_NS_OVERRIDE&CAP_MKNOD) means you can create devices which your container isn't allowed to create. Yup, this is all somewhat looking ahead... -serge -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
