1. 24 Jul, 2014 1 commit
    • Eric Paris's avatar
      CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes · 7d8b6c63
      Eric Paris authored
      This is effectively a revert of 7b9a7ec5
      
      
      plus fixing it a different way...
      
      We found, when trying to run an application from an application which
      had dropped privs that the kernel does security checks on undefined
      capability bits.  This was ESPECIALLY difficult to debug as those
      undefined bits are hidden from /proc/$PID/status.
      
      Consider a root application which drops all capabilities from ALL 4
      capability sets.  We assume, since the application is going to set
      eff/perm/inh from an array that it will clear not only the defined caps
      less than CAP_LAST_CAP, but also the higher 28ish bits which are
      undefined future capabilities.
      
      The BSET gets cleared differently.  Instead it is cleared one bit at a
      time.  The problem here is that in security/commoncap.c::cap_task_prctl()
      we actually check the validity of a capability being read.  So any task
      which attempts to 'read all things set in bset' followed by 'unset all
      things set in bset' will not even attempt to unset the undefined bits
      higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.
      
      So the 'parent' will look something like:
      CapInh:	0000000000000000
      CapPrm:	0000000000000000
      CapEff:	0000000000000000
      CapBnd:	ffffffc000000000
      
      All of this 'should' be fine.  Given that these are undefined bits that
      aren't supposed to have anything to do with permissions.  But they do...
      
      So lets now consider a task which cleared the eff/perm/inh completely
      and cleared all of the valid caps in the bset (but not the invalid caps
      it couldn't read out of the kernel).  We know that this is exactly what
      the libcap-ng library does and what the go capabilities library does.
      They both leave you in that above situation if you try to clear all of
      you capapabilities from all 4 sets.  If that root task calls execve()
      the child task will pick up all caps not blocked by the bset.  The bset
      however does not block bits higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.  So now the child
      task has bits in eff which are not in the parent.  These are
      'meaningless' undefined bits, but still bits which the parent doesn't
      have.
      
      The problem is now in cred_cap_issubset() (or any operation which does a
      subset test) as the child, while a subset for valid cap bits, is not a
      subset for invalid cap bits!  So now we set durring commit creds that
      the child is not dumpable.  Given it is 'more priv' than its parent.  It
      also means the parent cannot ptrace the child and other stupidity.
      
      The solution here:
      1) stop hiding capability bits in status
      	This makes debugging easier!
      
      2) stop giving any task undefined capability bits.  it's simple, it you
      don't put those invalid bits in CAP_FULL_SET you won't get them in init
      and you won't get them in any other task either.
      	This fixes the cap_issubset() tests and resulting fallout (which
      	made the init task in a docker container untraceable among other
      	things)
      
      3) mask out undefined bits when sys_capset() is called as it might use
      ~0, ~0 to denote 'all capabilities' for backward/forward compatibility.
      	This lets 'capsh --caps="all=eip" -- -c /bin/bash' run.
      
      4) mask out undefined bit when we read a file capability off of disk as
      again likely all bits are set in the xattr for forward/backward
      compatibility.
      	This lets 'setcap all+pe /bin/bash; /bin/bash' run
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
      Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      7d8b6c63
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    • Eric Paris's avatar
      AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces · 543bc6a1
      Eric Paris authored
      
      It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit
      messages (about the login) were unable to be sent.  This is common in
      many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers.  The PAM
      modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on
      the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket.
      If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the
      kernel.  If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login
      proceed.
      
      Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit
      subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in
      the init user or pid namespace.  So many forms of containers have never
      worked if audit was enabled in the kernel.
      
      BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code
      would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM).  Thus
      by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to
      reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login
      untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was
      a bug, but it is a bug some people expected.
      
      With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two
      bugs stopped cancelling each other out.  Now, containers in the
      non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was
      configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let
      users log in, now didn't!
      
      This fix is kinda hacky.  We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init
      relevant namespaces.  That means that not only will the old broken
      non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or
      non-init_user setups will 'work'.  They don't really work, since audit
      isn't logging things.  But it's what most users want.
      
      In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net
      (3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace.
      So all will be right in the world.  This just opens the doors wide open
      on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system...
      Reported-by: default avatarAndre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
      Reported-by: default avatarAdam Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      
      Conflicts:
      	kernel/audit.c
      543bc6a1
    • Eric Paris's avatar
      AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces · aa4af831
      Eric Paris authored
      
      It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit
      messages (about the login) were unable to be sent.  This is common in
      many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers.  The PAM
      modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on
      the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket.
      If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the
      kernel.  If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login
      proceed.
      
      Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit
      subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in
      the init user or pid namespace.  So many forms of containers have never
      worked if audit was enabled in the kernel.
      
      BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code
      would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM).  Thus
      by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to
      reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login
      untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was
      a bug, but it is a bug some people expected.
      
      With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two
      bugs stopped cancelling each other out.  Now, containers in the
      non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was
      configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let
      users log in, now didn't!
      
      This fix is kinda hacky.  We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init
      relevant namespaces.  That means that not only will the old broken
      non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or
      non-init_user setups will 'work'.  They don't really work, since audit
      isn't logging things.  But it's what most users want.
      
      In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net
      (3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace.
      So all will be right in the world.  This just opens the doors wide open
      on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system...
      Reported-by: default avatarAndre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
      Reported-by: default avatarAdam Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aa4af831
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