On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:40:04 -0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:
> This was brought up in a Red Hat bug (which may be marked private, I'm sorry):
>
> Bug 987055 - open O_WRONLY succeeds on some root owned files in /proc for process running with unprivileged EUID
>
> "On RHEL7 some of the files in /proc can be opened for writing by an unprivileged EUID."
>
> The flaw existed upstream as well last I checked.
>
> This commit in kernel v3.8 caused the regression:
>
> commit
cff109768b2d9c03095848f4cd4b0754117262aa
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Date: Fri Nov 16 03:03:01 2012 +0000
>
> net: Update the per network namespace sysctls to be available to the network namespace owner
>
> - Allow anyone with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights in the user namespace of the
> the netowrk namespace to change sysctls.
> - Allow anyone the uid of the user namespace root the same
> permissions over the network namespace sysctls as the global root.
> - Allow anyone with gid of the user namespace root group the same
> permissions over the network namespace sysctl as the global root group.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>
> because it changed /sys/net's special permission handler to test current_uid, not
> current_euid; same for current_gid/current_egid.
>
> So in this case, root cannot drop privs via set[ug]id, and retains all privs
> in this codepath.
Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done
in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm()
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
/* Allow network administrator to have same access as root. */
if (ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN) ||
- uid_eq(root_uid, current_uid())) {
+ uid_eq(root_uid, current_euid())) {
int mode = (table->mode >> 6) & 7;
return (mode << 6) | (mode << 3) | mode;
}
/* Allow netns root group to have the same access as the root group */
- if (gid_eq(root_gid, current_gid())) {
+ if (in_egroup_p(root_gid)) {
int mode = (table->mode >> 3) & 7;
return (mode << 3) | mode;
}