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authorRichard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.com>2018-02-13 23:57:18 +0300
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2018-02-27 01:45:25 +0300
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selinux: Add SCTP support
The SELinux SCTP implementation is explained in: Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst Signed-off-by: Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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+SCTP SELinux Support
+=====================
+
+Security Hooks
+===============
+
+``Documentation/security/LSM-sctp.rst`` describes the following SCTP security
+hooks with the SELinux specifics expanded below::
+
+ security_sctp_assoc_request()
+ security_sctp_bind_connect()
+ security_sctp_sk_clone()
+ security_inet_conn_established()
+
+
+security_sctp_assoc_request()
+-----------------------------
+Passes the ``@ep`` and ``@chunk->skb`` of the association INIT packet to the
+security module. Returns 0 on success, error on failure.
+::
+
+ @ep - pointer to sctp endpoint structure.
+ @skb - pointer to skbuff of association packet.
+
+The security module performs the following operations:
+ IF this is the first association on ``@ep->base.sk``, then set the peer
+ sid to that in ``@skb``. This will ensure there is only one peer sid
+ assigned to ``@ep->base.sk`` that may support multiple associations.
+
+ ELSE validate the ``@ep->base.sk peer_sid`` against the ``@skb peer sid``
+ to determine whether the association should be allowed or denied.
+
+ Set the sctp ``@ep sid`` to socket's sid (from ``ep->base.sk``) with
+ MLS portion taken from ``@skb peer sid``. This will be used by SCTP
+ TCP style sockets and peeled off connections as they cause a new socket
+ to be generated.
+
+ If IP security options are configured (CIPSO/CALIPSO), then the ip
+ options are set on the socket.
+
+
+security_sctp_bind_connect()
+-----------------------------
+Checks permissions required for ipv4/ipv6 addresses based on the ``@optname``
+as follows::
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ | BIND Permission Checks |
+ | @optname | @address contains |
+ |----------------------------|-----------------------------------|
+ | SCTP_SOCKOPT_BINDX_ADD | One or more ipv4 / ipv6 addresses |
+ | SCTP_PRIMARY_ADDR | Single ipv4 or ipv6 address |
+ | SCTP_SET_PEER_PRIMARY_ADDR | Single ipv4 or ipv6 address |
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+ | CONNECT Permission Checks |
+ | @optname | @address contains |
+ |----------------------------|-----------------------------------|
+ | SCTP_SOCKOPT_CONNECTX | One or more ipv4 / ipv6 addresses |
+ | SCTP_PARAM_ADD_IP | One or more ipv4 / ipv6 addresses |
+ | SCTP_SENDMSG_CONNECT | Single ipv4 or ipv6 address |
+ | SCTP_PARAM_SET_PRIMARY | Single ipv4 or ipv6 address |
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+``Documentation/security/LSM-sctp.rst`` gives a summary of the ``@optname``
+entries and also describes ASCONF chunk processing when Dynamic Address
+Reconfiguration is enabled.
+
+
+security_sctp_sk_clone()
+-------------------------
+Called whenever a new socket is created by **accept**\(2) (i.e. a TCP style
+socket) or when a socket is 'peeled off' e.g userspace calls
+**sctp_peeloff**\(3). ``security_sctp_sk_clone()`` will set the new
+sockets sid and peer sid to that contained in the ``@ep sid`` and
+``@ep peer sid`` respectively.
+::
+
+ @ep - pointer to current sctp endpoint structure.
+ @sk - pointer to current sock structure.
+ @sk - pointer to new sock structure.
+
+
+security_inet_conn_established()
+---------------------------------
+Called when a COOKIE ACK is received where it sets the connection's peer sid
+to that in ``@skb``::
+
+ @sk - pointer to sock structure.
+ @skb - pointer to skbuff of the COOKIE ACK packet.
+
+
+Policy Statements
+==================
+The following class and permissions to support SCTP are available within the
+kernel::
+
+ class sctp_socket inherits socket { node_bind }
+
+whenever the following policy capability is enabled::
+
+ policycap extended_socket_class;
+
+SELinux SCTP support adds the ``name_connect`` permission for connecting
+to a specific port type and the ``association`` permission that is explained
+in the section below.
+
+If userspace tools have been updated, SCTP will support the ``portcon``
+statement as shown in the following example::
+
+ portcon sctp 1024-1036 system_u:object_r:sctp_ports_t:s0
+
+
+SCTP Peer Labeling
+===================
+An SCTP socket will only have one peer label assigned to it. This will be
+assigned during the establishment of the first association. Once the peer
+label has been assigned, any new associations will have the ``association``
+permission validated by checking the socket peer sid against the received
+packets peer sid to determine whether the association should be allowed or
+denied.
+
+NOTES:
+ 1) If peer labeling is not enabled, then the peer context will always be
+ ``SECINITSID_UNLABELED`` (``unlabeled_t`` in Reference Policy).
+
+ 2) As SCTP can support more than one transport address per endpoint
+ (multi-homing) on a single socket, it is possible to configure policy
+ and NetLabel to provide different peer labels for each of these. As the
+ socket peer label is determined by the first associations transport
+ address, it is recommended that all peer labels are consistent.
+
+ 3) **getpeercon**\(3) may be used by userspace to retrieve the sockets peer
+ context.
+
+ 4) While not SCTP specific, be aware when using NetLabel that if a label
+ is assigned to a specific interface, and that interface 'goes down',
+ then the NetLabel service will remove the entry. Therefore ensure that
+ the network startup scripts call **netlabelctl**\(8) to set the required
+ label (see **netlabel-config**\(8) helper script for details).
+
+ 5) The NetLabel SCTP peer labeling rules apply as discussed in the following
+ set of posts tagged "netlabel" at: http://www.paul-moore.com/blog/t.
+
+ 6) CIPSO is only supported for IPv4 addressing: ``socket(AF_INET, ...)``
+ CALIPSO is only supported for IPv6 addressing: ``socket(AF_INET6, ...)``
+
+ Note the following when testing CIPSO/CALIPSO:
+ a) CIPSO will send an ICMP packet if an SCTP packet cannot be
+ delivered because of an invalid label.
+ b) CALIPSO does not send an ICMP packet, just silently discards it.
+
+ 7) IPSEC is not supported as RFC 3554 - sctp/ipsec support has not been
+ implemented in userspace (**racoon**\(8) or **ipsec_pluto**\(8)),
+ although the kernel supports SCTP/IPSEC.