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 --- fs/open.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/open.c') diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 55bdc75e2172..17cb6b1dab75 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -992,14 +992,12 @@ struct file *filp_open(const char *filename, int flags, umode_t mode) EXPORT_SYMBOL(filp_open); struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, - const char *filename, int flags) + const char *filename, int flags, umode_t mode) { struct open_flags op; - int err = build_open_flags(flags, 0, &op); + int err = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op); if (err) return ERR_PTR(err); - if (flags & O_CREAT) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); return do_file_open_root(dentry, mnt, filename, &op); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root); -- cgit v1.2.3