CIFS: Fix a malicious redirect problem in the DNS lookup code
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:53:18 +0000 (12:53 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:42:40 +0000 (09:42 -0700)
Fix the security problem in the CIFS filesystem DNS lookup code in which a
malicious redirect could be installed by a random user by simply adding a
result record into one of their keyrings with add_key() and then invoking a
CIFS CFS lookup [CVE-2010-2524].

This is done by creating an internal keyring specifically for the caching of
DNS lookups.  To enforce the use of this keyring, the module init routine
creates a set of override credentials with the keyring installed as the thread
keyring and instructs request_key() to only install lookup result keys in that
keyring.

The override is then applied around the call to request_key().

This has some additional benefits when a kernel service uses this module to
request a key:

 (1) The result keys are owned by root, not the user that caused the lookup.

 (2) The result keys don't pop up in the user's keyrings.

 (3) The result keys don't come out of the quota of the user that caused the
     lookup.

The keyring can be viewed as root by doing cat /proc/keys:

2a0ca6c3 I-----     1 perm 1f030000     0     0 keyring   .dns_resolver: 1/4

It can then be listed with 'keyctl list' by root.

# keyctl list 0x2a0ca6c3
1 key in keyring:
726766307: --alswrv     0     0 dns_resolver: foo.bar.com

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
fs/cifs/dns_resolve.c
fs/cifs/dns_resolve.h

index 484e52bb40bb20436956167a511567147b6136c5..2cb1a70214d7298070266840bb97ad7bf2c98a57 100644 (file)
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ init_cifs(void)
                goto out_unregister_filesystem;
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
-       rc = register_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver);
+       rc = cifs_init_dns_resolver();
        if (rc)
                goto out_unregister_key_type;
 #endif
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ init_cifs(void)
 
  out_unregister_resolver_key:
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
-       unregister_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver);
+       cifs_exit_dns_resolver();
  out_unregister_key_type:
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ exit_cifs(void)
        cifs_proc_clean();
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
        cifs_dfs_release_automount_timer();
-       unregister_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver);
+       cifs_exit_dns_resolver();
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL
        unregister_key_type(&cifs_spnego_key_type);
index 4db2c5e7283fa27f6c17848cbc5ab7386ace0432..49315cbf742d7ab22876b69349b6441723d850b7 100644 (file)
  */
 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/keyctl.h>
+#include <linux/key-type.h>
 #include <keys/user-type.h>
 #include "dns_resolve.h"
 #include "cifsglob.h"
 #include "cifsproto.h"
 #include "cifs_debug.h"
 
+static const struct cred *dns_resolver_cache;
+
 /* Checks if supplied name is IP address
  * returns:
  *             1 - name is IP
@@ -94,6 +98,7 @@ struct key_type key_type_dns_resolver = {
 int
 dns_resolve_server_name_to_ip(const char *unc, char **ip_addr)
 {
+       const struct cred *saved_cred;
        int rc = -EAGAIN;
        struct key *rkey = ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
        char *name;
@@ -133,8 +138,15 @@ dns_resolve_server_name_to_ip(const char *unc, char **ip_addr)
                goto skip_upcall;
        }
 
+       saved_cred = override_creds(dns_resolver_cache);
        rkey = request_key(&key_type_dns_resolver, name, "");
+       revert_creds(saved_cred);
        if (!IS_ERR(rkey)) {
+               if (!(rkey->perm & KEY_USR_VIEW)) {
+                       down_read(&rkey->sem);
+                       rkey->perm |= KEY_USR_VIEW;
+                       up_read(&rkey->sem);
+               }
                len = rkey->type_data.x[0];
                data = rkey->payload.data;
        } else {
@@ -165,4 +177,61 @@ out:
        return rc;
 }
 
+int __init cifs_init_dns_resolver(void)
+{
+       struct cred *cred;
+       struct key *keyring;
+       int ret;
+
+       printk(KERN_NOTICE "Registering the %s key type\n",
+              key_type_dns_resolver.name);
+
+       /* create an override credential set with a special thread keyring in
+        * which DNS requests are cached
+        *
+        * this is used to prevent malicious redirections from being installed
+        * with add_key().
+        */
+       cred = prepare_kernel_cred(NULL);
+       if (!cred)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
+       keyring = key_alloc(&key_type_keyring, ".dns_resolver", 0, 0, cred,
+                           (KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
+                           KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ,
+                           KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA);
+       if (IS_ERR(keyring)) {
+               ret = PTR_ERR(keyring);
+               goto failed_put_cred;
+       }
+
+       ret = key_instantiate_and_link(keyring, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto failed_put_key;
+
+       ret = register_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver);
+       if (ret < 0)
+               goto failed_put_key;
+
+       /* instruct request_key() to use this special keyring as a cache for
+        * the results it looks up */
+       cred->thread_keyring = keyring;
+       cred->jit_keyring = KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING;
+       dns_resolver_cache = cred;
+       return 0;
+
+failed_put_key:
+       key_put(keyring);
+failed_put_cred:
+       put_cred(cred);
+       return ret;
+}
 
+void __exit cifs_exit_dns_resolver(void)
+{
+       key_revoke(dns_resolver_cache->thread_keyring);
+       unregister_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver);
+       put_cred(dns_resolver_cache);
+       printk(KERN_NOTICE "Unregistered %s key type\n",
+              key_type_dns_resolver.name);
+}
index 966e9288930be75bc9d952cde2960ef3191db212..26b9eaa9f5ee5898ae4241412e4127512fc95ec4 100644 (file)
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
 #define _DNS_RESOLVE_H
 
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
-#include <linux/key-type.h>
-extern struct key_type key_type_dns_resolver;
+extern int __init cifs_init_dns_resolver(void);
+extern void __exit cifs_exit_dns_resolver(void);
 extern int dns_resolve_server_name_to_ip(const char *unc, char **ip_addr);
 #endif /* KERNEL */