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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-12-14 07:55:36 -0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-12-14 16:12:03 -0800
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userns: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for most uses of setns.
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> found a nasty little bug in the permissions of setns. With unprivileged user namespaces it became possible to create new namespaces without privilege. However the setns calls were relaxed to only require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user nameapce of the targed namespace. Which made the following nasty sequence possible. pid = clone(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS); if (pid == 0) { /* child */ system("mount --bind /home/me/passwd /etc/passwd"); } else if (pid != 0) { /* parent */ char path[PATH_MAX]; snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%u/ns/mnt"); fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); setns(fd, 0); system("su -"); } Prevent this possibility by requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the current user namespace when joing all but the user namespace. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/utsname.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/utsname.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index f6336d51d64c..08b197e8c485 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
{
struct uts_namespace *ns = new;
- if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
+ !nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
get_uts_ns(ns);