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Message-ID: <20110625173430.GA3079@albatros>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:35:01 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: procfs io and taskstats infoleaks, proc/pid/* threats
(Bringing the subject to the list)
While implementing HARDEN_PROC and arguing with LKML folks about
usefullness of the feature, I've discovered /proc/pid/io and taskstats
interfaces can be used to gather rather sensitive information, like
password length:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/21/12
The suggested patches:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/24/88
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/24/89
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/24/91
taskstats patch is partial, it doesn't honor set{u,g}ids and processes
using caps. For the full fix ptrace_task_may_access_current() is
needed, the patch adding it is pending:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/20/316
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/20/317
I'd appreciate if somebody points me how information stored in
sched, schedstats, stat, and status files can be exploited. I suspect
it can be used similar way.
Other thoughts:
Files mountinfo, mounts store information related to the process' fs
namespace. I feel this information can be somewhat private, e.g. mount
points can reveal private file pathes in case of separate namespaces
where this information cannot be learned by reading /proc/self/mountinfo.
Files limits and status store process related restrictions. I dunno
whether this can be considered as a private information.
I'd appeciate any comment.
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments
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