From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>,
David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>,
Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] binfmt_*: scope path resolution of interpreters
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 15:39:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUOj=4VWp=B=QT0BQ8X_Ds_b+pt68oDwfjGb+K0StXmWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wh1JJD_RabMaFfinsAQp1vHGJOQ1rKqihafY=r7yHc8sQ@mail.gmail.com>
> On May 11, 2019, at 10:21 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:00 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>>
>> A better “spawn” API should fix this.
>
> Andy, stop with the "spawn would be better".
It doesn’t have to be spawn per se. But the current situation sucks.
>
> 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.
>
>
I’ve literally never spoken to an MS person about it.
What container managers and init systems *want* is a way to drop
privileges, change namespaces, etc and then run something in a
controlled way so that the intermediate states aren’t dangerous. An
API for this could be spawn-like or exec-like — that particular
distinction is beside the point. Having personally written code that
mucks with namepsaces, I've wanted two particular abilities that are
both quite awkward:
a) Change all my UIDs and GIDs to match a container, enter that
container's namespaces, and run some binary in the container's
filesystem, all atomically enough that I don't need to worry about
accidentally leaking privileges into the container. A
super-duper-non-dumpable mode would kind of allow this, but I'd worry
that there's some other hole besides ptrace() and /proc/self.
b) Change all my UIDs and GIDs to match a container, enter that
container's namespaces, and run some binary that is *not* in the
container's filesystem. This happens, for example, if the container's
mount namespace has no exec mounts at all. We don't have a fantastic
way to do this at all right now due to /proc/self/exe.
Regardless, the actual CVE at hand would have been nicely avoided if
writing to /proc/self/exe didn’t work, and I see no reason we can’t
make that happen.
I suppose we could also consider a change to disable /proc/self/exe if
it's not reachable from /proc/self/root. By "disable", I mean that
readlink() should maybe still work, but actually trying to open it
could probably fail safely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-11 22:40 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
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 [this message]
[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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