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* [RFC v1 00/17] seccomp-object: From attack surface reduction to sandboxing
@ 2016-03-24  1:46 ` Mickaël Salaün
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From: Mickaël Salaün @ 2016-03-24  1:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-security-module
  Cc: Mickaël Salaün, Andreas Gruenbacher, Andy Lutomirski,
	Andy Lutomirski, Arnd Bergmann, Casey Schaufler, Daniel Borkmann,
	David Drysdale, Eric Paris, James Morris, Jeff Dike,
	Julien Tinnes, Kees Cook, Michael Kerrisk, Paul Moore,
	Richard Weinberger, Serge E . Hallyn, Stephen Smalley,
	Tetsuo Handa, Will Drewry, linux-api, kernel-hardening

Hi,

This series is a proof of concept (not ready for production) to extend seccomp
with the ability to check argument pointers of syscalls as kernel object (e.g.
file path). This add a needed feature to create a full sandbox managed by
userland like the Seatbelt/XNU Sandbox or the OpenBSD Pledge. It was initially
inspired from a partial seccomp-LSM prototype [1] but has evolved a lot since :)

The audience for this RFC is limited to security-related actors to discuss
about this new feature before enlarging the scope to a wider audience. This
aims to focus on the security goal, usability and architecture before entering
into the gory details of each subsystem. I also wish to get constructive
criticisms about the userland API and intrusiveness of the code (and what could
be the other ways to do it better) before going further (and addressing the
TODO and FIXME in the code).

The approach taken is to add the minimum amount of code while still allowing
the userland to create access rules via seccomp. The current limitation of
seccomp is to get raw syscall arguments value but there is no way to
dereference a pointer to check its content (e.g. the first argument of the open
syscall). This seccomp evolution brings a generic way to check against argument
pointer regardless from the syscall unlike current LSMs.

Here is the use case scenario:
* First, a process must load some groups of seccomp checkers. This checkers are
  dedicated structs describing a pointed data (e.g. path). They are
  semantically grouped to be efficiently managed and checked in batch. Each
  group have a static ID. This IDs are unique and they reference groups only
  accessible from the filters created by the same process.
* The loaded checkers are inherited and accessible by the newly created
  filters. This groups can be referenced by filters with a new return value
  SECCOMP_RET_ARGEVAL. Value in  SECCOMP_RET_DATA contains a group ID and an
  argument bitmask. This return value is only meaningful between stacked
  filters to ask a check and get the result in the extended struct
  seccomp_data. The new fields are "is_valid_syscall", "arg_group" containing a
  group ID and "matches[6]" consisting of one 64-bits mask per argument. This
  bitmasks are useful to get the check result of each checker from a group on a
  syscall argument which is handy to create a custom access control engine from
  userland.
* SECCOMP_RET_ARGEVAL is equivalent to SECCOMP_RET_ACCESS except that the
  following filters can take a decision regarding a match (e.g. return EACCESS
  or emulate the syscall).

Each checker is autonomous and new ones can easily be added in the future.
There is currently two checkers for path objects:
* SECCOMP_CHECK_FS_LITERAL checks if a string match a defined path;
* SECCOMP_CHECK_FS_BENEATH checks if the path representation of a string is
  equal or equivalent to a file belonging to a defined path.

This design does not seems too intrusive but is flexible enough to allow a
powerful sandbox mechanism accessible by any process on Linux. The use of
seccomp, including this new feature, is more suitable with the help of a
userland library (e.g. libseccomp) that could help to specify a high-level
language to express a security policy instead of raw syscall rules.

The main concern should be about time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race
conditions attacks. Because of the nature of seccomp (executed before the
effective syscall and before a potential ptrace), it is not possible to block
all races but to detect them.

There is still some questions I couldn't answer for sure (grep for FIXME or
XXX). Comments appreciated.

Tested on the x86 and UM architectures in 32 and 64 bits (with audit enabled).

[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=seccomp/lsm


# Need for LSM

Because the arguments can be checked before the syscall actually evaluate them,
there is two race condition classes:
* The data pointed by the user address is in control of the userland (e.g. a
  tracing process) and is so subject to TOCTOU race conditions between the
  seccomp filter evaluation and the effective resource grabbing (part of each
  syscall code).
* The semantic of the pointed data is also subject to race condition because
  there is no lock on the resource (e.g. file) between the evaluation of the
  argument by the seccomp filter and the use of the pointed resource by each
  part of the syscall code.

The solution to fix these race conditions is to copy the userspace data and to
lock the pointed resource. Whereas it is easy to copy the userspace data, it is
not realistic to lock any pointed resources because of obvious locking issues.
However, it is possible to detect a TOCTOU race condition with the help of LSM
hooks. This way, we can keep a flexible access control (e.g. by controlling
syscall return values) while blocking unattended malicious or bogus userland
behavior (e.g. exploit a race-condition).

To be able to deny access to a malicious userland behavior we must replay the
seccomp filters and verify the intermediate return values to find out if the
filters policy is still respected. Thanks to a cache we can detect if a check
replay is necessary. Otherwise, the LSM hooks are really quick for
non-malicious userland.

# Cache handling

Each time a checker is called, for each argument to check, it get them from
it's seccomp_argeval_checked cache if any, or create a new cache entry and put
it otherwise. This cache entries will be used to evaluate arguments.

When rechecking in the LSM hooks, first it find out which argument is mapped to
the hook check and find if it differ from the corresponding cache entry. If it
match, then return OK without replaying the checks, or if nothing match, replay
all the checks from this check type.

# How to use it

The SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_* help to narrow the rules constraints:
* SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_FS_DENTRY: Check and rely on the path name.
* SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_FS_INODE: Check the data "container" whatever it's path name.
* SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_FS_DEVICE: Check the device (i.e. file system) on which the
  file is, e.g. it can be use to allow access to USB mass-storage or dm-verity
  content only
* SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_FS_MOUNT: Check the file mount point, e.g. can enforce a
  read-only bind mount (but is less flexible than the other checks)
* SECCOMP_ARGFLAG_FS_NOFOLLOW: Check the file without following it if it is a
  symlink. Useful for rename(2) or open(2) with O_NOFOLLOW to have consistent
  check. However, LSM hooks will deny all unattended accesses set by the rules
  ignoring this flag (i.e. it act as a fail-safe).

# Limitations

## Ptrace
If a process can ptrace another one, the tracer can execute whatever syscall it
wants without being constrained by any seccomp filter from the tracee. This
apply for this seccomp extension as well. Any seccomp filter should then deny
the use of ptrace.

The LSM hooks must ensure that the filters results are the same (with the same
arguments) but must not deny any ptraced modifications (e.g. syscall argument
change).

## Stateless access
Unlike current LSMs, the policies are stateless. It's not possible to mark and
track a kernel object (e.g. file descriptor). Capsicum seems more appropriate
for this kind of feature.

## Resource usage
We must limit the resources taken by a filter list, and so the number of rules,
to not allow any process to exhaust the system.


Regards,

Mickaël Salaün (17):
  um: Export the sys_call_table
  seccomp: Fix typo
  selftest/seccomp: Fix the flag name SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC
  selftest/seccomp: Fix the seccomp(2) signature
  security/seccomp: Add LSM and create arrays of syscall metadata
  seccomp: Add the SECCOMP_ADD_CHECKER_GROUP command
  seccomp: Add seccomp object checker evaluation
  selftest/seccomp: Remove unknown_ret_is_kill_above_allow test
  selftest/seccomp: Extend seccomp_data until matches[6]
  selftest/seccomp: Add field_is_valid_syscall test
  selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_open_whitelist test
  audit,seccomp: Extend audit with seccomp state
  selftest/seccomp: Rename TRACE_poke to TRACE_poke_sys_read
  selftest/seccomp: Make tracer_poke() more generic
  selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_toctou_argument test
  security/seccomp: Protect against filesystem TOCTOU
  selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_toctou_filesystem test

 arch/x86/um/asm/syscall.h                     |   2 +
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h             |  22 +
 include/linux/audit.h                         |  25 ++
 include/linux/compat.h                        |  10 +
 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h                     |   5 +
 include/linux/seccomp.h                       | 136 +++++-
 include/linux/syscalls.h                      |  68 +++
 include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h                  | 105 +++++
 kernel/audit.h                                |   3 +
 kernel/auditsc.c                              |  36 +-
 kernel/fork.c                                 |  13 +-
 kernel/seccomp.c                              | 594 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 security/Kconfig                              |   1 +
 security/Makefile                             |   2 +
 security/seccomp/Kconfig                      |  14 +
 security/seccomp/Makefile                     |   3 +
 security/seccomp/checker_fs.c                 | 524 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/seccomp/checker_fs.h                 |  18 +
 security/seccomp/lsm.c                        | 135 ++++++
 security/seccomp/lsm.h                        |  19 +
 security/security.c                           |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 572 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 22 files changed, 2248 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/Kconfig
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/Makefile
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/checker_fs.c
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/checker_fs.h
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/lsm.c
 create mode 100644 security/seccomp/lsm.h

-- 
2.8.0.rc3

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2016-03-24  1:46 [RFC v1 00/17] seccomp-object: From attack surface reduction to sandboxing Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 01/17] um: Export the sys_call_table Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 02/17] seccomp: Fix typo Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 03/17] selftest/seccomp: Fix the flag name SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
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2016-03-24  4:35     ` Kees Cook
2016-03-24  4:35       ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2016-03-29 15:35       ` Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 15:35         ` [kernel-hardening] " Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 18:46         ` [PATCH 1/2] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-29 18:46           ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-29 19:06           ` Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 19:06             ` [kernel-hardening] " Shuah Khan
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 04/17] selftest/seccomp: Fix the seccomp(2) signature Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
     [not found]   ` <1458784008-16277-5-git-send-email-mic-WFhQfpSGs3bR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-24  4:36     ` Kees Cook
2016-03-24  4:36       ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2016-03-29 15:38       ` Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 15:38         ` [kernel-hardening] " Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 18:51         ` [PATCH 2/2] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-29 18:51           ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
     [not found]           ` <1459277509-10666-1-git-send-email-mic-WFhQfpSGs3bR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-29 19:07             ` Shuah Khan
2016-03-29 19:07               ` [kernel-hardening] " Shuah Khan
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 05/17] security/seccomp: Add LSM and create arrays of syscall metadata Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24 15:47   ` Casey Schaufler
2016-03-24 15:47     ` [kernel-hardening] " Casey Schaufler
2016-03-24 16:01   ` Casey Schaufler
2016-03-24 16:01     ` [kernel-hardening] " Casey Schaufler
     [not found]     ` <56F40F3F.90708-iSGtlc1asvQWG2LlvL+J4A@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-24 21:31       ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24 21:31         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 06/17] seccomp: Add the SECCOMP_ADD_CHECKER_GROUP command Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 07/17] seccomp: Add seccomp object checker evaluation Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46 ` [RFC v1 08/17] selftest/seccomp: Remove unknown_ret_is_kill_above_allow test Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  1:46   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-04-20 18:21 ` [RFC v1 00/17] seccomp-object: From attack surface reduction to sandboxing Mickaël Salaün
2016-04-20 18:21   ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-04-26 22:46   ` Kees Cook
2016-04-26 22:46     ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
     [not found] ` <1458784008-16277-1-git-send-email-mic-WFhQfpSGs3bR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-24  2:53   ` [RFC v1 09/17] selftest/seccomp: Extend seccomp_data until matches[6] Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53     ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53     ` [RFC v1 11/17] selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_open_whitelist test Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53       ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
     [not found]     ` <1458788042-26173-1-git-send-email-mic-WFhQfpSGs3bR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-24  2:53       ` [RFC v1 10/17] selftest/seccomp: Add field_is_valid_syscall test Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53       ` [RFC v1 12/17] audit,seccomp: Extend audit with seccomp state Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53       ` [RFC v1 13/17] selftest/seccomp: Rename TRACE_poke to TRACE_poke_sys_read Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53       ` [RFC v1 14/17] selftest/seccomp: Make tracer_poke() more generic Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:53         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54       ` [RFC v1 15/17] selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_toctou_argument test Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54     ` [RFC v1 16/17] security/seccomp: Protect against filesystem TOCTOU Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54       ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54     ` [RFC v1 17/17] selftest/seccomp: Add argeval_toctou_filesystem test Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24  2:54       ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-03-24 16:24   ` [RFC v1 00/17] seccomp-object: From attack surface reduction to sandboxing Kees Cook
2016-03-24 16:24     ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
     [not found]     ` <CAGXu5jLModth62F8PsFfNVCL=7PrAd+kT_NEsMP5WwOJvLS8EQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-27  5:03       ` Loganaden Velvindron
2016-03-27  5:03         ` Loganaden Velvindron
2016-04-28  2:36   ` Kees Cook
2016-04-28  2:36     ` [kernel-hardening] " Kees Cook
2016-04-28 23:45     ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-04-28 23:45       ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-05-21 12:58       ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-05-21 12:58         ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün
2016-05-02 22:19     ` James Morris
2016-05-02 22:19       ` [kernel-hardening] " James Morris
     [not found]     ` <CAGXu5jK1U12vMk11HD_x_gNz3Rk4ZgEfdThY7DHvm4e4sPRh4g-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-21 15:19       ` Daniel Borkmann
2016-05-21 15:19         ` [kernel-hardening] " Daniel Borkmann
     [not found]         ` <57407C98.3090508-FeC+5ew28dpmcu3hnIyYJQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-05-22 21:30           ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-05-22 21:30             ` [kernel-hardening] " Mickaël Salaün

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