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Message-ID: <4FFDAE70.6050103@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:48:48 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@...zang.com>
CC: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
Subject: Re: ecryptfs headsup
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On 07/11/2012 08:08 AM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Tyler Hicks
> <tyhicks@...onical.com> wrote:
>> On 2012-07-10 15:13:40, Tyler Hicks wrote:
>>> On 2012-07-10 16:48:26, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
>>>> On 07/10/2012 10:30 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 04:21:13PM +0200, Sebastian Krahmer
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It is a potential privilege escalation since the pam
>>>>>> module was not setting uid/gid(list) appropriately and
>>>>>> the suid binary did not clear environment before exec'ing
>>>>>> umount. I do not know whether MS_NOSUID was really needed
>>>>>> (and maybe MS_NODEV is, but I was not able to create dev
>>>>>> files). Unfortunally we found ecryptfs not really stable
>>>>>> inside the kernel and Marcus is still rebooting :)
>>>>>
>>>>> This means ...
>>>>>
>>>>> So far we have not yet found a specific security issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ciao, Marcus
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This reminds me...
>>>>
>>>> If an unprivileged user can mount ecryptfs shares (e.g. via
>>>> the setuid-root mount helper shipped on Ubuntu) and has the
>>>> ability to mount user-controlled filesystems (either network
>>>> filesystems via setuid mount helpers like mount.cifs or
>>>> mount.nfs, or formatted USB drives via physical access), it's
>>>> possible to escalate privileges to root because the setuid
>>>> ecryptfs helper does not mount filesystems with the nosuid or
>>>> nodev flags.
>>>>
>>>> An attacker can create an ecryptfs filesystem on his own
>>>> machine on a network filesystem or USB drive, and then mount
>>>> that ecryptfs filesystem on the victim machine for a
>>>> setuid-root backdoor. Hard-coding nosuid and nodev into the
>>>> setuid ecryptfs helper would resolve this, but I'm not sure
>>>> that's workable for Ubuntu home directories.
>>>
>>> This vulnerability is limited to physical access via formatted
>>> USB drives because the eCryptfs filesystem code does not work
>>> on top of network filesystems.
>>>
>>> Additionally, I believe that the encrypted home source and
>>> destination mount points were hard-coded up until
>>> ecryptfs-utils version 86. Versions before that should not be
>>> vulnerable to the setuid-root binary on a USB drive attack
>>> mentioned above.
>>>
>>> Dustin - Would you have any objections to forcing the nosuid
>>> and nodev mount options in the mount.ecryptfs_private helper?
>
> Hi Tyler, et al.-
>
> I don't have any objections at all with adding nosuid and nodev to
> the hardcoded mount.ecryptfs_private options.
>
> Actually, I seem to recall this coming up recently before. I
> can't find the bug or email thread (must have been IRC), but I
> recall offering to commit, test, and release that change
> immediately. I believe I was asked to wait to do that until a CVE
> had been published... I can't find any record of that conversation
> though, so that's just from memory.
>
> Shall I go ahead and commit/test/release that now, Tyler?
So it sounds like a non privileged user on an Ubuntu machine can
insert a USB stick/etc with a file system that gets automatically
mounted, said file system can contain setuid root binaries for example
which the user can then execute, elevating privileges?
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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