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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 10:04:14 -0800
From: Jessica Frazelle <me@...sfraz.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Container Hardening
Yeah I can definitely come up with a list. The interesting thing is
some vulnerabilities don't even need for the process to be _in_ a user
namespace, just that CONFIG_USERNS=y. So as far as I currently know, a
lot has to do with hitting these obscure-ish code paths. But will work
on a list :)
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:54 AM, Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com> wrote:
> That seems like a good idea!
>
> It would be useful to gather a list of bugs that affected namespaces
> or usual mistakes in using namespaces.
>
> I will see if I can free some time to help.
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Jessica Frazelle <me@...sfraz.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made this one page site[1] to detail trying to harden namespaces in
>> the kernel. The other primitives containers use are included as well,
>> but if we are honest we all know namespaces need the most help.
>>
>> Solar mentioned just using this mailing list for this initiative as
>> well. That's great with me because I would love all your feedback and
>> help.
>>
>> I think the first focus should be on preventing priviledge escalations
>> in user namespaces. This has the largest attack surface. The
>> fundamental problem seems to be that not many people have inspected
>> user namespaces and the various interactions with other parts of the
>> kernel. I will be trying to do this and would love any help from
>> anyone interested. We could split up the various systems and do some
>> research to find out just how far this rabbit hole goes.
>>
>> In the past, one of the ways to fix vulnerabilities with user
>> namespaces was to disallow the interaction, for instance CLONE_FS.
>>
>> I'm sure we can't have that as a solution for everything, but I'm
>> hoping by working together we can come up with a well-informed
>> solution.
>>
>> Jess
>>
>> [1] https://containerhardening.org
>
>
>
> --
> Thomas
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Jessie Frazelle
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