On Mon, 2017-07-24 at 16:30 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> As systemd ramps up enabling NNP (NoNewPrivileges) for system
> services,
> it is increasingly breaking SELinux domain transitions for those
> services
> and their descendants. systemd enables NNP not only for services
> whose
> unit files explicitly specify NoNewPrivileges=yes but also for
> services
> whose unit files specify any of the following options in combination
> with
> running without CAP_SYS_ADMIN (e.g. specifying User= or a
> CapabilityBoundingSet= without CAP_SYS_ADMIN): SystemCallFilter=,
> SystemCallArchitectures=, RestrictAddressFamilies=,
> RestrictNamespaces=,
> PrivateDevices=, ProtectKernelTunables=, ProtectKernelModules=,
> MemoryDenyWriteExecute=, or RestrictRealtime= as per the
> systemd.exec(5)
> man page.
>
> The end result is bad for the security of both SELinux-disabled and
> SELinux-enabled systems. Packagers have to turn off these
> options in the unit files to preserve SELinux domain
> transitions. For
> users who choose to disable SELinux, this means that they miss out on
> at least having the systemd-supported protections. For users who
> keep
> SELinux enabled, they may still be missing out on some protections
> because it isn't necessarily guaranteed that the SELinux policy for
> that service provides the same protections in all cases.
>
> commit 7b0d0b40cd78 ("selinux: Permit bounded transitions under
> NO_NEW_PRIVS or NOSUID.") allowed bounded transitions under NNP in
> order to support limited usage for sandboxing programs. However,
> defining typebounds for all of the affected service domains
> is impractical to implement in policy, since typebounds requires us
> to ensure that each domain is allowed everything all of its
> descendant
> domains are allowed, and this has to be repeated for the entire chain
> of domain transitions. There is no way to clone all allow rules from
> descendants to their ancestors in policy currently, and doing so
> would
> be undesirable even if it were practical, as it requires leaking
> permissions to objects and operations into ancestor domains that
> could
> weaken their own security in order to allow them to the descendants
> (e.g. if a descendant requires execmem permission, then so do all of
> its ancestors; if a descendant requires execute permission to a file,
> then so do all of its ancestors; if a descendant requires read to a
> symbolic link or temporary file, then so do all of its ancestors...).
> SELinux domains are intentionally not hierarchical / bounded in this
> manner normally, and making them so would undermine their protections
> and least privilege.
>
> We have long had a similar tension with SELinux transitions and
> nosuid
> mounts, albeit not as severe. Users often have had to choose between
> retaining nosuid on a mount and allowing SELinux domain transitions
> on
> files within those mounts. This likewise leads to unfortunate
> tradeoffs
> in security.
>
> Decouple NNP/nosuid from SELinux transitions, so that we don't have
> to
> make a choice between them. Introduce a nnp_nosuid_transition policy
> capability that enables transitions under NNP/nosuid to be based on
> a permission (nnp_transition for NNP; nosuid_transition for nosuid)
> between the old and new contexts in addition to the current support
> for bounded transitions. Domain transitions can then be allowed in
> policy without requiring the parent to be a strict superset of all of
> its children.
>
> With this change, systemd unit files can be left unmodified from
> upstream.
> SELinux-disabled and SELinux-enabled users will benefit from
> retaining any
> of the systemd-provided protections. SELinux policy will only need
> to
> be adapted to enable the new policy capability and to allow the
> new permissions between domain pairs as appropriate.
>
> NB: Allowing nnp_transition between two contexts opens up the
> potential
> for the old context to subvert the new context by installing seccomp
> filters before the execve. Allowing nosuid_transition between two
> contexts
> opens up the potential for a context transition to occur on a file
> from
> an untrusted filesystem (e.g. removable media or remote
> filesystem). Use
> with care.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> ----------
> security/selinux/include/classmap.h | 4 +++-
> security/selinux/include/security.h | 2 ++
> security/selinux/ss/services.c | 7 +++++-
> 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 1684844..70edf9e 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -2319,6 +2319,7 @@ static int check_nnp_nosuid(const struct
> linux_binprm *bprm,
> int nnp = (bprm->unsafe & LSM_UNSAFE_NO_NEW_PRIVS);
> int nosuid = !mnt_may_suid(bprm->file->f_path.mnt);
> int rc;
> + u32 av;
>
> if (!nnp && !nosuid)
> return 0; /* neither NNP nor nosuid */
> @@ -2327,24 +2328,41 @@ static int check_nnp_nosuid(const struct
> linux_binprm *bprm,
> return 0; /* No change in credentials */
>
> /*
> - * The only transitions we permit under NNP or nosuid
> - * are transitions to bounded SIDs, i.e. SIDs that are
> - * guaranteed to only be allowed a subset of the permissions
> - * of the current SID.
> + * If the policy enables the nnp_nosuid_transition policy
> capability,
> + * then we permit transitions under NNP or nosuid if the
> + * policy allows the corresponding permission between
> + * the old and new contexts.
> */
> - rc = security_bounded_transition(old_tsec->sid, new_tsec-
> >sid);
> - if (rc) {
> - /*
> - * On failure, preserve the errno values for NNP vs
> nosuid.
> - * NNP: Operation not permitted for caller.
> - * nosuid: Permission denied to file.
> - */
> + if (selinux_policycap_nnp_nosuid_transition) {
> if (nnp)
> - return -EPERM;
> + av = PROCESS__NNP_TRANSITION;
> else
> - return -EACCES;
> + av = PROCESS2__NOSUID_TRANSITION;
> +
> + rc = avc_has_perm(old_tsec->sid, new_tsec->sid,
> + SECCLASS_PROCESS,
Ah, sorry, that's obviously wrong. Please ignore this patch, I'll spin
up another one.
> + av, NULL);
> + if (!rc)
> + return 0;
> }
> - return 0;
> +
> + /*
> + * We also permit NNP or nosuid transitions to bounded SIDs,
> + * i.e. SIDs that are guaranteed to only be allowed a subset
> + * of the permissions of the current SID.
> + */
> + rc = security_bounded_transition(old_tsec->sid, new_tsec-
> >sid);
> + if (!rc)
> + return 0;
> +
> + /*
> + * On failure, preserve the errno values for NNP vs nosuid.
> + * NNP: Operation not permitted for caller.
> + * nosuid: Permission denied to file.
> + */
> + if (nnp)
> + return -EPERM;
> + return -EACCES;
> }
>
> static int selinux_bprm_set_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
> diff --git a/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
> b/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
> index b9fe343..b3f892d 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
> +++ b/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
> @@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ struct security_class_mapping secclass_map[] = {
> "getattr", "setexec", "setfscreate", "noatsecure",
> "siginh",
> "setrlimit", "rlimitinh", "dyntransition", "setcurrent",
> "execmem", "execstack", "execheap", "setkeycreate",
> - "setsockcreate", "getrlimit", NULL } },
> + "setsockcreate", "getrlimit", "nnp_transition", NULL }
> },
> + { "process2",
> + { "nosuid_transition", NULL } },
> { "system",
> { "ipc_info", "syslog_read", "syslog_mod",
> "syslog_console", "module_request", "module_load", NULL
> } },
> diff --git a/security/selinux/include/security.h
> b/security/selinux/include/security.h
> index e91f08c..3e32317 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/include/security.h
> +++ b/security/selinux/include/security.h
> @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ enum {
> POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_EXTSOCKCLASS,
> POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_ALWAYSNETWORK,
> POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_CGROUPSECLABEL,
> + POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_NNP_NOSUID_TRANSITION,
> __POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_MAX
> };
> #define POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_MAX (__POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_MAX - 1)
> @@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ extern int selinux_policycap_openperm;
> extern int selinux_policycap_extsockclass;
> extern int selinux_policycap_alwaysnetwork;
> extern int selinux_policycap_cgroupseclabel;
> +extern int selinux_policycap_nnp_nosuid_transition;
>
> /*
> * type_datum properties
> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
> b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
> index 2f02fa6..16c55de 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
> @@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ char
> *selinux_policycap_names[__POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_MAX] = {
> "open_perms",
> "extended_socket_class",
> "always_check_network",
> - "cgroup_seclabel"
> + "cgroup_seclabel",
> + "nnp_nosuid_transition"
> };
>
> int selinux_policycap_netpeer;
> @@ -84,6 +85,7 @@ int selinux_policycap_openperm;
> int selinux_policycap_extsockclass;
> int selinux_policycap_alwaysnetwork;
> int selinux_policycap_cgroupseclabel;
> +int selinux_policycap_nnp_nosuid_transition;
>
> static DEFINE_RWLOCK(policy_rwlock);
>
> @@ -2009,6 +2011,9 @@ static void security_load_policycaps(void)
> selinux_policycap_cgroupseclabel =
> ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb.policycaps,
> POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_CGROUPSECLABEL);
> + selinux_policycap_nnp_nosuid_transition =
> + ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb.policycaps,
> + POLICYDB_CAPABILITY_NNP_NOSUID_TRANS
> ITION);
>
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(selinux_policycap_names); i++)
> pr_info("SELinux: policy capability %s=%d\n",
