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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:57:54 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] proc: force dcache drop on unauthorized access
Hello Andrew,
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 20:40 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> The patch "proc: fix races against execve() of /proc/PID/fd**" is still
> a partial fix for a setxid problem. link(2) is a yet another way to
> identify whether a specific fd is opened by a privileged process. By
> calling link(2) against /proc/PID/fd/* an attacker may identify whether
> the fd number is valid for PID by analysing link(2) return code.
>
> Both getattr() and link() can be used by the attacker iff the dentry is
> present in the dcache. In this case ->lookup() is not called and the
> only way to check ptrace permissions is either operation handler or
> ->revalidate(). The easiest solution to prevent any unauthorized access
> to /proc/PID/fd*/ files is to force the dentry drop on each unauthorized
> access attempt.
>
> If an attacker keeps opened fd of /proc/PID/fd/ and dcache contains
> a specific dentry for some /proc/PID/fd/XXX, any future attemp to use the
> dentry by the attacker would lead to the dentry drop as a result of a
> failed ptrace check in ->revalidate(). Then the attacker cannot spawn a
> dentry for the specific fd number because of ptrace check in ->lookup().
>
> The dentry drop can be still observed by an attacker by analysing
> information from /proc/slabinfo, which is addressed in the successive
> patch.
After (almost) everybody agreed that closing slabinfo and similar is
a good thing, should I resend these 2 patches (/proc/PID/fd and
slabinfo) with sysfs addition or you'll take these patches and I'll send
sysfs patch after them?
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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