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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] binfmt_*: scope path resolution of interpreters
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 13:26:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=whOL-NBso8X5S8s597yZEOMBoU8chkMFVTi8b-ff2qARg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wh1JJD_RabMaFfinsAQp1vHGJOQ1rKqihafY=r7yHc8sQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:21 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Notice? None of the real problems are about execve or would be solved
> by any spawn API. You just think that because you've apparently been
> talking to too many MS people that think fork (and thus indirectly
> execve()) is bad process management.

Side note: a good policy has been (and remains) to make suid binaries
not be dynamically linked. And in the absence of that, the dynamic
linker at least resets the library path when it notices itself being
dynamic, and it certainly doesn't inherit any open flags from the
non-trusted environment.

And by the same logic, a suid interpreter must *definitely* should not
inherit any execve() flags from the non-trusted environment. So I
think Aleksa's patch to use the passed-in open flags is *exactly* the
wrong thing to do for security reasons. It doesn't close holes, it
opens them.

                Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-11 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-06 16:54 [PATCH v6 0/6] namei: resolveat(2) path resolution restriction API Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] namei: split out nd->dfd handling to dirfd_path_init Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] namei: O_BENEATH-style path resolution flags Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 3/6] namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like path resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] namei: aggressively check for nd->root escape on ".." resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] binfmt_*: scope path resolution of interpreters Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 18:37   ` Jann Horn
2019-05-06 19:17     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-06 23:41       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-08  0:54       ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-10 20:41       ` Jann Horn
2019-05-10 21:20         ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-10 22:55           ` Jann Horn
2019-05-10 23:36             ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-11 15:49               ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-11 17:00             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-11 17:21               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-11 17:26                 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-05-11 17:31                   ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-11 17:43                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-11 17:48                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-11 18:00                       ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-11 22:39                 ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]                   ` <CAHk-=wg3+3GfHsHdB4o78jNiPh_5ShrzxBuTN-Y8EZfiFMhCvw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-05-12 10:19                     ` Christian Brauner
     [not found]                     ` <9CD2B97D-A6BD-43BE-9040-B410D996A195@amacapital.net>
2019-05-12 10:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-05-12 13:35                         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-12 13:38                           ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-12 14:34                           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-11 17:26               ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-05-08  0:38     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-05-10 20:10       ` Jann Horn
2019-05-06 16:54 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] namei: resolveat(2) syscall Aleksa Sarai

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