From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Mauro
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] modules:capabilities: add a per-task modules autoload restriction
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 11:02:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5jL_-cxidy_O4ORaN0iX9o7=hsi3DYTRvQs5w5363Z+MVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEiveUdQYbx8d9B68n2M12fhu3s8web3zCvkc-C9FWtNnbELuA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:29 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:51 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:51 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>>>>
> [...]
>>>> * DCCP use after free CVE-2017-6074
>>>> * n_hldc CVE-2017-2636
>>>> * XFRM framework CVE-2017-7184
>>>> * L2TPv3 CVE-2016-10200
>>>>
>>>> Most of these need CAP_NET_ADMIN to be autoloaded, however we also
>>>> need CAP_NET_ADMIN for other things... therefore it is better to have
>>>> an extra facility that could coexist with CAP_NET_ADMIN and other
>>>> sandbox features.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree that the feature is important, but I think your implementation
>>> is needlessly dangerous. I imagine that the main uses that you care
>>> about involve containers. How about doing it in a safer way that
>>> works for containers? I can think of a few. For example:
>>>
>>> 1. A sysctl that, if set, prevents autoloading outside the root
>>> userns. This isn't very flexible at all, but it might work.
>>>
>>> 2. Your patch, but require privilege within the calling namespace to
>>> set the prctl.
>>
>> How about CAP_SYS_ADMIN || no_new_privs?
>>
>> -Kees
>>
>
> Yes I can update as per Andy suggestion to require privileges inside
> the calling namespace to set prctl. Other options that are not prctl
> based have more variants, that make them hard to use.
>
> So I would got with CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the calling userns ||
> no_new_privs , I would have said CAP_SYS_MODULE in the userns but it
> seems better to standardize on CAP_SYS_ADMIN to set the prctl.
Andy's concern is that it would provide an escalation from SYS_MODULE
to SYS_ADMIN through some privileged process being tricked through a
missing API provided by modules, so we have to use either SYS_ADMIN ||
nnp.
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-24 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-19 22:20 [PATCH v3 0/2] modules:capabilities: automatic module loading restrictions Djalal Harouni
2017-04-19 22:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] modules:capabilities: automatic module loading restriction Djalal Harouni
2017-04-19 23:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-20 2:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2017-04-20 12:44 ` [kernel-hardening] " Djalal Harouni
2017-04-20 15:02 ` Ben Hutchings
[not found] ` <1492700543.31767.23.camel-/+tVBieCtBitmTQ+vhA3Yw@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-20 20:39 ` [kernel-hardening] " Djalal Harouni
[not found] ` <CAEiveUdFL53XyQpacmN6f8F28M0bLQDcetpRXJjrJ10vDmQi8Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-20 21:28 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-19 22:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] modules:capabilities: add a per-task modules autoload restriction Djalal Harouni
2017-04-19 23:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-19 23:43 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-20 2:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CALCETrUueOx1tqj+Ru93KGpy2HHR-A_GQ6DrAppiomkPTtX7Lw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-21 23:19 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-21 23:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-21 23:40 ` Kees Cook
2017-04-21 23:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-22 0:12 ` Djalal Harouni
[not found] ` <CAEiveUcx8fwQgXdLPeMNsTjX2KPhQKH__a-XzcHko_1aCmh4sg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-22 1:19 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-04-22 6:51 ` Andy Lutomirski
[not found] ` <CALCETrUT73CcPQx2T=1zWbOUhw9r-c_YqXw5-KTwxgWPgXuTwA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-22 19:29 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jLV+WZyj+xnxVFkFEgEthNt6eXdcSgHT-=85mJ1ECZ1Rw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-24 14:25 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-04-24 18:02 ` Kees Cook [this message]
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jL_-cxidy_O4ORaN0iX9o7=hsi3DYTRvQs5w5363Z+MVg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-24 18:35 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-04-21 23:52 ` Casey Schaufler
2017-04-22 0:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-22 0:13 ` Casey Schaufler
2017-04-22 6:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-22 12:17 ` Djalal Harouni
[not found] ` <CAEiveUdbQcfn1xC5xWMv91vL_uR1MGTvARqw-E4GDTMUZ6t=bA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2017-05-04 13:07 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-05-04 14:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2017-05-05 13:06 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-05-05 16:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-20 1:57 ` kbuild test robot
[not found] ` <1492640420-27345-3-git-send-email-tixxdz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-19 22:38 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-04-24 4:29 ` Rusty Russell
2017-04-26 9:06 ` Djalal Harouni
2017-04-27 2:07 ` Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <87k266hacq.fsf-8n+1lVoiYb80n/F98K4Iww@public.gmane.org>
2017-04-27 13:16 ` Djalal Harouni
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