UBUNTU: SAUCE: (noup) ptrace: being capable wrt a process requires mapped uids/gids
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527374 ptrace_has_cap() checks whether the current process should be treated as having a certain capability for ptrace checks against another process. Until now, this was equivalent to has_ns_capability(current, target_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE). However, if a root-owned process wants to enter a user namespace for some reason without knowing who owns it and therefore can't change to the namespace owner's uid and gid before entering, as soon as it has entered the namespace, the namespace owner can attach to it via ptrace and thereby gain access to its uid and gid. While it is possible for the entering process to switch to the uid of a claimed namespace owner before entering, causing the attempt to enter to fail if the claimed uid is wrong, this doesn't solve the problem of determining an appropriate gid. With this change, the entering process can first enter the namespace and then safely inspect the namespace's properties, e.g. through /proc/self/{uid_map,gid_map}, assuming that the namespace owner doesn't have access to uid 0. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/12/259Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <andy.whitcroft@canonical.com> Acked-by: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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