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Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 10:32:43 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Dolding <oiaohm@...il.com>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>, Matt Brown <matt@...tt.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] security: tty: make
TIOCSTI ioctl require CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Quoting Alan Cox (gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk):
> > Alan is right. CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows crossing the tty barrier.
>
> I don't need CAP_ anything to mmap your frame buffer, or use selection to
> cut and paste text into the terminal.
>
> > Broken applications that you can wrap in a pty/tty pair as the lxc
> > application does would be defeated if those applications move up to
> > CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Because you have granted the high right of cross
> > pty/tty containment.
>
> Yes
Right.
> > I don't know of a genuine program using push back in exploiting way
> > where the pushed back input is expected to be processed after the
> > program has terminated.
>
> So there are two real problems here
>
> 1. We don't know what namespace each character belongs to, so there's no
> way we can construct a model where pushed symbols only appear in the
> namespace they are pushed from. That would be a nice situation but it's
> not at all obvious there is a sane way to implement it.
>
> 2. Focussing on TIOCSTI is just ignoring the bigger picture. TIOCSTI is
> actually a lot less nasty in many situations than a framebuffer mmap and
> spying attack where a container run from the console could sit and watch
> you. TIOCSTI is in some ways the easiest to fix because setsid() will let
> you mitigate it in certain cases whereas I'm fairly sure the selection
> based console attack doesn't need controlling terminal rights.
>
> In the case you have a less privileged subshell you need a whole new tty
> context, and there's no obvious way for the kernel to magic one into
> existance so that for example the container can change it's own baud rate
> but not the baud rate of any app outside the container.
>
> ioctl whitelisting will break stuff, but an SELinux/AppArmour/seccomp
> whitelisting based solution is probably the only practical one you can
> implement usefully, and for a lot of container users would be ok.
Seccomp policy could refuse TIOCSTI to any fd, but that's not ideal. It could
be customized per-application-start to only refuse TIOCSTI to the passed-in tty
fd, but you'd have to prevent dup then right? Selinux can label the fd so it's
in fact ideal here. But - is there something clever a seccomp policy could do
to work only on specified fds and any that were dup'ed?
Mind you, I of course agree that creating a new pty and passing only that in
is the sane fix. Maybe in the end this thread will serve best as a loud
reminder / teaching moment about this issue for those about to write such an
application.
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