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Message-ID: <20140131005155.GA17396@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:51:55 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Linux kernel: fs: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests (CVE-2013-2929)
I'm afraid the issue below was never brought to oss-security (as it must
have been). The fix was committed on November 13:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348
including detailed description and the CVE-2013-2929 reference. So it
was clearly disclosed as a security issue, yet bringing it to
oss-security specifically seems to have falled through the cracks. :-(
Kees' posting to linux-distros:
----- Forwarded message from Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net> -----
From: Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net>
Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 16:25:30 -0700
The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean. Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for SUID_DUMP_USER rather than
non-zero.
Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2,
a user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges
to that user. (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)
CVE-2013-2929
Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
---
I plan to send this to security@...nel.org on Monday, unless anyone
would like to push that a bit. Also note, I do not have ia64 cross
compilers available, so I used the "1" literal instead of adding
binfmts.h to the ia64 code.
---
arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
fs/exec.c | 6 ++++++
kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +++-
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
index e0a899a..d036a33 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
regs->loadrs = 0; \
regs->r8 = get_dumpable(current->mm); /* set "don't zap registers" flag */ \
regs->r12 = new_sp - 16; /* allocate 16 byte scratch area */ \
- if (unlikely(!get_dumpable(current->mm))) { \
+ if (unlikely(get_dumpable(current->mm) != 1)) { \
/* \
* Zap scratch regs to avoid leaking bits between processes with different \
* uid/privileges. \
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 8875dd1..bb8afc1 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1668,6 +1668,12 @@ int __get_dumpable(unsigned long mm_flags)
return (ret > SUID_DUMP_USER) ? SUID_DUMP_ROOT : ret;
}
+/*
+ * This returns the actual value of the suid_dumpable flag. For things
+ * that are using this for checking for privilege transitions, it must
+ * test against SUID_DUMP_USER rather than treating it as a boolean
+ * value.
+ */
int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
return __get_dumpable(mm->flags);
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index dd562e9..a75ad41 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
#include <linux/cn_proc.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
+#include <linux/binfmts.h>
static int ptrace_trapping_sleep_fn(void *flags)
@@ -257,7 +258,8 @@ ok:
if (task->mm)
dumpable = get_dumpable(task->mm);
rcu_read_lock();
- if (!dumpable && !ptrace_has_cap(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, mode)) {
+ if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER &&
+ !ptrace_has_cap(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, mode)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
return -EPERM;
}
--
1.7.9.5
--
Kees Cook @outflux.net
----- End forwarded message -----
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