net: Update the sysctl permissions handler to test effective uid/gid
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 11:40:04 -0500 Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote: > This was brought up in a Red Hat bug (which may be marked private, I'm sorry): > > Bug 987055 - open O_WRONLY succeeds on some root owned files in /proc for process running with unprivileged EUID > > "On RHEL7 some of the files in /proc can be opened for writing by an unprivileged EUID." > > The flaw existed upstream as well last I checked. > > This commit in kernel v3.8 caused the regression: > > commit cff10976 > Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> > Date: Fri Nov 16 03:03:01 2012 +0000 > > net: Update the per network namespace sysctls to be available to the network namespace owner > > - Allow anyone with CAP_NET_ADMIN rights in the user namespace of the > the netowrk namespace to change sysctls. > - Allow anyone the uid of the user namespace root the same > permissions over the network namespace sysctls as the global root. > - Allow anyone with gid of the user namespace root group the same > permissions over the network namespace sysctl as the global root group. > > Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > > because it changed /sys/net's special permission handler to test current_uid, not > current_euid; same for current_gid/current_egid. > > So in this case, root cannot drop privs via set[ug]id, and retains all privs > in this codepath. Modify the code to use current_euid(), and in_egroup_p, as in done in fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c:test_perm() Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reported-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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