Commit 613cc2b6 authored by Aleksa Sarai's avatar Aleksa Sarai Committed by Al Viro

fs: exec: apply CLOEXEC before changing dumpable task flags

If you have a process that has set itself to be non-dumpable, and it
then undergoes exec(2), any CLOEXEC file descriptors it has open are
"exposed" during a race window between the dumpable flags of the process
being reset for exec(2) and CLOEXEC being applied to the file
descriptors. This can be exploited by a process by attempting to access
/proc/<pid>/fd/... during this window, without requiring CAP_SYS_PTRACE.

The race in question is after set_dumpable has been (for get_link,
though the trace is basically the same for readlink):

[vfs]
-> proc_pid_link_inode_operations.get_link
   -> proc_pid_get_link
      -> proc_fd_access_allowed
         -> ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);

Which will return 0, during the race window and CLOEXEC file descriptors
will still be open during this window because do_close_on_exec has not
been called yet. As a result, the ordering of these calls should be
reversed to avoid this race window.

This is of particular concern to container runtimes, where joining a
PID namespace with file descriptors referring to the host filesystem
can result in security issues (since PRCTL_SET_DUMPABLE doesn't protect
against access of CLOEXEC file descriptors -- file descriptors which may
reference filesystem objects the container shouldn't have access to).

Cc: dev@opencontainers.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.2+
Reported-by: default avatarMichael Crosby <crosbymichael@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent e522751d
......@@ -1268,6 +1268,13 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
flush_thread();
current->personality &= ~bprm->per_clear;
/*
* We have to apply CLOEXEC before we change whether the process is
* dumpable (in setup_new_exec) to avoid a race with a process in userspace
* trying to access the should-be-closed file descriptors of a process
* undergoing exec(2).
*/
do_close_on_exec(current->files);
return 0;
out:
......@@ -1330,7 +1337,6 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
group */
current->self_exec_id++;
flush_signal_handlers(current, 0);
do_close_on_exec(current->files);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_new_exec);
......
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