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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2013-10-05 13:15:30 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-10-07 15:57:56 -0400
commit88ba09df236c618b5466d35a0165df0dc865eac5 (patch)
tree76a1a70777d5be16ef1fd4b224cd44b71cb96969
parentfe119a05f8ca481623a8d02efcc984332e612528 (diff)
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net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid
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>
-rw-r--r--net/sysctl_net.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/sysctl_net.c b/net/sysctl_net.c
index 9bc6db04..e7000be 100644
--- a/net/sysctl_net.c
+++ b/net/sysctl_net.c
@@ -47,12 +47,12 @@ static int net_ctl_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head,
/* 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;
}
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