Commit 504b69eb authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells

keys: Fix request_key() lack of Link perm check on found key

The request_key() syscall allows a process to gain access to the 'possessor'
permits of any key that grants it Search permission by virtue of request_key()
not checking whether a key it finds grants Link permission to the caller.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
parent 45e0f30c
......@@ -433,6 +433,10 @@ The main syscalls are:
/sbin/request-key will be invoked in an attempt to obtain a key. The
callout_info string will be passed as an argument to the program.
To link a key into the destination keyring the key must grant link
permission on the key to the caller and the keyring must grant write
permission.
See also Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst.
......
......@@ -564,6 +564,16 @@ struct key *request_key_and_link(struct key_type *type,
key_ref = search_process_keyrings(&ctx);
if (!IS_ERR(key_ref)) {
if (dest_keyring) {
ret = key_task_permission(key_ref, current_cred(),
KEY_NEED_LINK);
if (ret < 0) {
key_ref_put(key_ref);
key = ERR_PTR(ret);
goto error_free;
}
}
key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
if (dest_keyring) {
ret = key_link(dest_keyring, key);
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