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authorJann Horn <jann@thejh.net>2016-03-23 00:25:36 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-23 01:36:02 +0300
commit378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a (patch)
treed16654900c79dd882ece48eaaeda3afcffd10e5a /fs/open.c
parent1333ab03150478df8d6f5673a91df1e50dc6ab97 (diff)
downloadlinux-378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a.tar.xz
fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories
This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where all of the following conditions are fulfilled: - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2. - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.) - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by default using a distro patch.) Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules, causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process, allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with root privileges. To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/open.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 55bdc75e2172..17cb6b1dab75 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -992,14 +992,12 @@ struct file *filp_open(const char *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(filp_open);
struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
- const char *filename, int flags)
+ const char *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
{
struct open_flags op;
- int err = build_open_flags(flags, 0, &op);
+ int err = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
if (err)
return ERR_PTR(err);
- if (flags & O_CREAT)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return do_file_open_root(dentry, mnt, filename, &op);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);