From caaee6234d05a58c5b4d05e7bf766131b810a657 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jann Horn Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:00:04 -0800 Subject: ptrace: use fsuid, fsgid, effective creds for fs access checks By checking the effective credentials instead of the real UID / permitted capabilities, ensure that the calling process actually intended to use its credentials. To ensure that all ptrace checks use the correct caller credentials (e.g. in case out-of-tree code or newly added code omits the PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS flag), use two new flags and require one of them to be set. The problem was that when a privileged task had temporarily dropped its privileges, e.g. by calling setreuid(0, user_uid), with the intent to perform following syscalls with the credentials of a user, it still passed ptrace access checks that the user would not be able to pass. While an attacker should not be able to convince the privileged task to perform a ptrace() syscall, this is a problem because the ptrace access check is reused for things in procfs. In particular, the following somewhat interesting procfs entries only rely on ptrace access checks: /proc/$pid/stat - uses the check for determining whether pointers should be visible, useful for bypassing ASLR /proc/$pid/maps - also useful for bypassing ASLR /proc/$pid/cwd - useful for gaining access to restricted directories that contain files with lax permissions, e.g. in this scenario: lrwxrwxrwx root root /proc/13020/cwd -> /root/foobar drwx------ root root /root drwxr-xr-x root root /root/foobar -rw-r--r-- root root /root/foobar/secret Therefore, on a system where a root-owned mode 6755 binary changes its effective credentials as described and then dumps a user-specified file, this could be used by an attacker to reveal the memory layout of root's processes or reveal the contents of files he is not allowed to access (through /proc/$pid/cwd). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Al Viro Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ptrace.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c') diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index aa94aee9d4c9..2341efe7fe02 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -219,6 +219,14 @@ static int ptrace_has_cap(struct user_namespace *ns, unsigned int mode) static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) { const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred; + int dumpable = 0; + kuid_t caller_uid; + kgid_t caller_gid; + + if (!(mode & PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS) == !(mode & PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS)) { + WARN(1, "denying ptrace access check without PTRACE_MODE_*CREDS\n"); + return -EPERM; + } /* May we inspect the given task? * This check is used both for attaching with ptrace @@ -228,18 +236,33 @@ static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) * because setting up the necessary parent/child relationship * or halting the specified task is impossible. */ - int dumpable = 0; + /* Don't let security modules deny introspection */ if (same_thread_group(task, current)) return 0; rcu_read_lock(); + if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_FSCREDS) { + caller_uid = cred->fsuid; + caller_gid = cred->fsgid; + } else { + /* + * Using the euid would make more sense here, but something + * in userland might rely on the old behavior, and this + * shouldn't be a security problem since + * PTRACE_MODE_REALCREDS implies that the caller explicitly + * used a syscall that requests access to another process + * (and not a filesystem syscall to procfs). + */ + caller_uid = cred->uid; + caller_gid = cred->gid; + } tcred = __task_cred(task); - if (uid_eq(cred->uid, tcred->euid) && - uid_eq(cred->uid, tcred->suid) && - uid_eq(cred->uid, tcred->uid) && - gid_eq(cred->gid, tcred->egid) && - gid_eq(cred->gid, tcred->sgid) && - gid_eq(cred->gid, tcred->gid)) + if (uid_eq(caller_uid, tcred->euid) && + uid_eq(caller_uid, tcred->suid) && + uid_eq(caller_uid, tcred->uid) && + gid_eq(caller_gid, tcred->egid) && + gid_eq(caller_gid, tcred->sgid) && + gid_eq(caller_gid, tcred->gid)) goto ok; if (ptrace_has_cap(tcred->user_ns, mode)) goto ok; @@ -306,7 +329,7 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request, goto out; task_lock(task); - retval = __ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH); + retval = __ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS); task_unlock(task); if (retval) goto unlock_creds; -- cgit v1.2.3