Jann Horn <[email protected]> writes:
> On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On May 13, 2025 6:05:45 AM PDT, Mateusz Guzik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Here is my proposal: *deny* exec of suid/sgid binaries if fs_struct is
>> >shared. This will have to be checked for after the execing proc becomes
>> >single-threaded ofc.
>>
>> Unfortunately the above Chrome helper is setuid and uses CLONE_FS.
>
> Chrome first launches a setuid helper, and then the setuid helper does
> CLONE_FS. Mateusz's proposal would not impact this usecase.
>
> Mateusz is proposing to block the case where a process first does
> CLONE_FS, and *then* one of the processes sharing the fs_struct does a
> setuid execve(). Linux already downgrades such an execve() to be
> non-setuid, which probably means anyone trying to do this will get
> hard-to-understand problems. Mateusz' proposal would just turn this
> hard-to-debug edgecase, which already doesn't really work, into a
> clean error; I think that is a nice improvement even just from the
> UAPI standpoint.
>
> If this change makes it possible to clean up the kernel code a bit, even
> better.
What has brought this to everyone's attention just now? This is
the second mention of this code path I have seen this week.
AKA: security/commoncap.c:cap_bprm_creds_from_file(...)
> ...
> /* Don't let someone trace a set[ug]id/setpcap binary with the revised
> * credentials unless they have the appropriate permit.
> *
> * In addition, if NO_NEW_PRIVS, then ensure we get no new privs.
> */
> is_setid = __is_setuid(new, old) || __is_setgid(new, old);
>
> if ((is_setid || __cap_gained(permitted, new, old)) &&
> ((bprm->unsafe & ~LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE) ||
> !ptracer_capable(current, new->user_ns))) {
> /* downgrade; they get no more than they had, and maybe less */
> if (!ns_capable(new->user_ns, CAP_SETUID) ||
> (bprm->unsafe & LSM_UNSAFE_NO_NEW_PRIVS)) {
> new->euid = new->uid;
> new->egid = new->gid;
> }
> new->cap_permitted = cap_intersect(new->cap_permitted,
> old->cap_permitted);
> }
The actual downgrade is because a ptrace'd executable also takes
this path.
I have seen it argued rather forcefully that continuing rather than
simply failing seems better in the ptrace case.
In general I think it can be said this policy is "safe". AKA we don't
let a shared fs struct confuse privileged applications. So nothing
to panic about.
It looks like most of the lsm's also test bprm->unsafe.
So I imagine someone could very carefully separate the non-ptrace case
from the ptrace case but *shrug*.
Perhaps:
if ((is_setid || __cap_gained(permitted, new_old)) &&
((bprm->unsafe & ~LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE) ||
!ptracer_capable(current, new->user_ns))) {
+ if (!(bprm->unsafe & LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE)) {
+ return -EPERM;
+ }
/* downgrade; they get no more than they had, and maybe less */
if (!ns_capable(new->user_ns, CAP_SETUID) ||
(bprm->unsafe & LSM_UNSAFE_NO_NEW_PRIVS)) {
new->euid = new->uid;
new->egid = new->gid;
}
new->cap_permitted = cap_intersect(new->cap_permitted,
old->cap_permitted);
}
If that is what you want that doesn't look to scary. I don't think
it simplifies anything about fs->in_exec. As fs->in_exec is set when
the processing calling exec is the only process that owns the fs_struct.
With fs->in_exec just being a flag that doesn't allow another thread
to call fork and start sharing the fs_struct during exec.
*Shrug*
I don't see why anyone would care. It is just a very silly corner case.
Eric
