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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:30:46 -0700
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To: 中村雄一 / NAKAMURA，YUUICHI <yuichi.nakamura.fe@...achi.com>
Cc: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
"yamauchi@...okayama-u.ac.jp" <yamauchi@...okayama-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: [RFC] A method to prevent priviledge
escalation
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 02:49:59AM +0000, 中村雄一 / NAKAMURA，YUUICHI wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As we said in Linux Security Summit 2017,
> we would like to post a patch to prevent privilege escalation attack.
>
> The concept is here:
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/nakamura_20170831_1.pdf
>
> This work is still work in progress and feedback is welcomed.
> Below patch works for linux-4.4.0,
> To see that it works (try it in a safe place!),
> * build vulnerable kernel on Ubuntu 16.04.1
> source: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/4.4.0-62.83
> please enable "CONFIG_AKO" in kernel config.
> * try a poc code for kernel vulnerability
> https://github.com/xairy/kernel-exploits/blob/master/CVE-2017-6074/poc.c
> * look at kernel log, you can see a log that it detected attack like below:
> AKO: detected unauthorized change of UID. syscall=45 original: uid=1000, euid=1000, fsuid=1000, suid=1000 attempt: uid=0, euid=0, fsuid=0, suid=0
> AKO: detected unauthorized change of gid. syscall=45 original: gid=1000, egid=1000, fsgid=1000, sgid=1000 attempt: gid=0, egid=0, fsgid=0, sgid=0
>
You mean a method to *allow* privilege escalation? This makes stack overflows
exploitable again, and trivially so. Not to mention that adding one line of
code to the POC to set ->ako_sysnum circumvents this entire "security" feature.
The only way this would be even somewhat sane is if the copy of the credentials
were mapped read-only. But even then, it wouldn't protect against exploits that
already gain arbitrary code execution (such as your example exploit) --- it
would only protect against exploits that somehow modify their cred struct
directly. And in that case keeping the cred structs mapped readonly would
probably make more sense...
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