From 378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:25:36 -0700 Subject: fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where all of the following conditions are fulfilled: - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2. - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.) - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by default using a distro patch.) Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules, causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process, allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with root privileges. To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c index 7e7746a42a62..10a1d7dc9313 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c @@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ static ssize_t binary_sysctl(const int *name, int nlen, } mnt = task_active_pid_ns(current)->proc_mnt; - file = file_open_root(mnt->mnt_root, mnt, pathname, flags); + file = file_open_root(mnt->mnt_root, mnt, pathname, flags, 0); result = PTR_ERR(file); if (IS_ERR(file)) goto out_putname; -- cgit v1.2.3