From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: Sergio Lopez Pascual <slp@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>, virtio-fs-list <virtio-fs@redhat.com>, Alex Xu <alex@alxu.ca>, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtiofsd: prevent opening of special files (CVE-2020-35517) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:27:18 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAOssrKfc2zFgYfBVRmmNt2sW1Ktpwe2xCMz8__1-wHFV7SpCLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210126101839.GC226981@stefanha-x1.localdomain> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:18 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:44 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > This patch adds the missing checks to virtiofsd. This is a short-term > > > solution because it does not prevent a compromised virtiofsd process > > > from opening device nodes on the host. > > > > I think the proper solution is adding support to the host in order to > > restrict opens on filesystems that virtiofsd has access to. > > > > My idea was to add a "force_nodev" mount option that cannot be > > disabled and will make propagated mounts also be marked > > "force_nodev,nodev". > > Interesting idea! Mount options that are relevant: > * noexec > * nosuid > * nodev > * nosymfollow > > Do you have time to work on the force_* mount options? Not at the moment, but first we need to probe Al to see if this idea sticks... > > A possibly simpler solution is to extend seccomp to restrict the > > process itself from being able to open special files. Not sure if > > that's within the scope of seccomp though. > > I don't think seccomp can provide that restriction since it's unrelated > to the syscall or its arguments. How about selinux, then? Thanks, Miklos
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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>, virtio-fs-list <virtio-fs@redhat.com>, Alex Xu <alex@alxu.ca>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Virtio-fs] [PATCH] virtiofsd: prevent opening of special files (CVE-2020-35517) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:27:18 +0100 [thread overview] Message-ID: <CAOssrKfc2zFgYfBVRmmNt2sW1Ktpwe2xCMz8__1-wHFV7SpCLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <20210126101839.GC226981@stefanha-x1.localdomain> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 11:18 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 05:12:23PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:44 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > This patch adds the missing checks to virtiofsd. This is a short-term > > > solution because it does not prevent a compromised virtiofsd process > > > from opening device nodes on the host. > > > > I think the proper solution is adding support to the host in order to > > restrict opens on filesystems that virtiofsd has access to. > > > > My idea was to add a "force_nodev" mount option that cannot be > > disabled and will make propagated mounts also be marked > > "force_nodev,nodev". > > Interesting idea! Mount options that are relevant: > * noexec > * nosuid > * nodev > * nosymfollow > > Do you have time to work on the force_* mount options? Not at the moment, but first we need to probe Al to see if this idea sticks... > > A possibly simpler solution is to extend seccomp to restrict the > > process itself from being able to open special files. Not sure if > > that's within the scope of seccomp though. > > I don't think seccomp can provide that restriction since it's unrelated > to the syscall or its arguments. How about selinux, then? Thanks, Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-26 10:29 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-01-21 14:44 [PATCH] virtiofsd: prevent opening of special files (CVE-2020-35517) Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-21 14:44 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-21 14:48 ` Daniel P. Berrangé 2021-01-21 14:48 ` [Virtio-fs] " Daniel P. Berrangé 2021-01-22 15:49 ` Vivek Goyal 2021-01-22 15:49 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal 2021-01-25 14:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-25 14:53 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-21 14:50 ` alex--- via 2021-01-21 14:50 ` [Virtio-fs] " Alex Xu 2021-01-21 15:32 ` Laszlo Ersek 2021-01-21 15:32 ` [Virtio-fs] " Laszlo Ersek 2021-01-21 15:52 ` alex--- via 2021-01-21 15:52 ` [Virtio-fs] " Alex Xu 2021-01-21 17:07 ` Laszlo Ersek 2021-01-21 17:07 ` [Virtio-fs] " Laszlo Ersek 2021-01-21 19:00 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert 2021-01-21 19:00 ` [Virtio-fs] " Dr. David Alan Gilbert 2021-01-22 15:40 ` Vivek Goyal 2021-01-22 15:40 ` [Virtio-fs] " Vivek Goyal 2021-01-26 10:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-26 10:10 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-25 16:12 ` Miklos Szeredi 2021-01-25 16:12 ` [Virtio-fs] " Miklos Szeredi 2021-01-26 10:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-26 10:18 ` [Virtio-fs] " Stefan Hajnoczi 2021-01-26 10:27 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message] 2021-01-26 10:27 ` Miklos Szeredi
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