Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2012-11-01 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 384922 src:linux linux-2.6/2.6.12-1 found 384922 linux/3.2.32-1 tags 384922 - fixed-upstream + wontfix upstream quit Hi again, In February, Paul Szabo wrote: Do I understand correctly that you are requesting an export or mountd option filter_gid, which would behave like --manage-gids

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2012-02-19 Thread paul . szabo
... AUTH_SYS with untrusted root on clients is not a good fit ... NFSv4 with kerberos authentication would be less broken. root_squash is a simplistic and incomplete band-aid. NFSv4+krb is better only because it does not have a concept of groups. Remove groups from AUTH_SYS, ignoring all

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2012-02-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: NFSv4+krb is better only because it does not have a concept of groups. Remove groups from AUTH_SYS, ignoring all groups or in other words doing manage primary group similar to secondaries with -manage_gids, and issue might be solved. Surely the ability to

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2012-02-19 Thread paul . szabo
Dear Jonathan, NFSv4+krb is better only because ... Surely the ability to squash multiple uids is also a help. ;-) Not when asking to squash groups. :-) I thought that idmapd worked also with AUTH_SYS. Do I understand correctly that you are requesting an export or mountd option filter_gid,

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Paul Szabo wrote: I will re-phrase the problem, this may be clearer for some people: The root_squash option is to protect from an evil root. Though group staff is root-equivalent, root_squash does not currently squash that group (for various reasons, the kernel not supporting such

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2009-10-02 Thread psz
Dear Moritz, Please see comments in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 : This looks more like a feature request than a bug report to me. The right address for that kind of discussion would be on the linux-...@vger.kernel.org mailing list, not bugzilla. Right, a good first step

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2009-10-01 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 11:57:03PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: I will re-phrase the problem, this may be clearer for some people: The root_squash option is to protect from an evil root. Though group staff is root-equivalent, root_squash does not currently squash that group (for various

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2009-10-01 Thread psz
Dear Moritz, Please file an enhancement bug at bugzilla.kernel.org ... Done: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia --

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-09-02 Thread Paul Szabo
I will re-phrase the problem, this may be clearer for some people: The root_squash option is to protect from an evil root. Though group staff is root-equivalent, root_squash does not currently squash that group (for various reasons, the kernel not supporting such options being one). An

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Szabo
severity 384922 critical thanks Dear Steve, Sorry, I missed one: ... only exploitable when - you have a non-empty staff group on the client (+/- equivalent to untrusted root users on the client, since any root user can simply add users to this group) - you have NFS-shared filesystems

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:05:41PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: The last two points are true by default on Debian, but the first three points are configuration decisions on the part of the NFS server administrator. I understand that you have reasons to export shares allowing suid binaries in

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:34:00PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: I am somewhat curious: who is Steinar, and who are you? Steve Langasek is the Debian Release Manager Steinar H. Gunderson is a Debian Developer, comaintainer of nfs-utils I had submitted a bug against nfs-kernel-server; the maintainer

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 384922 important quit On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 04:34:00PM +1000, Paul Szabo wrote: Sorry, I missed one: ... only exploitable when - you have a non-empty staff group on the client (+/- equivalent to untrusted root users on the client, since any root user can simply add users

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Szabo
severity 384922 critical thanks Dear Steve, It happens to be very dangerous to share a filesystem via NFS between systems that have different security contexts. This does not make it a critical bug ... Is it acceptable for a root compromise of one system to easily propagate onto another? I

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Szabo
severity 384922 critical thanks Dear Steve, The issue is root compromise of an NFS server. If that is possible then it is critical; if it is not possible then the bug is solved. It seems logically impossible to downgrade this kind of bugs. Cheers, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Szabo
retitle 384922 NFS root_squash broken without support for squashing multiple groups severity 384922 critical thanks Dear Steve, [root_squash is] often circumventable ... References (CERT kb, securityfocus BID, secunia advisory)? I do not know of any (other than this bug) instances of

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Szabo
Dear Steve, You seem to think that this is important but not critical. Don't you agree that it is a root security hole? Thanks, Paul Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of SydneyAustralia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#384922: NFS insecure without support for squashing multiple groups

2006-08-30 Thread Paul Szabo
Dear Steve, Thanks for your response. The bug log indicates that it's only exploitable when - you have a non-empty staff group on the client (+/- equivalent to untrusted root users on the client, since any root user can simply add users to this group) - you have NFS-shared filesystems