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From: "Frank Filz" <ffilzlnx@mindspring.com>
To: "'Andy Lutomirski'" <luto@kernel.org>, <security@kernel.org>
Cc: "'Konstantin Khlebnikov'" <koct9i@gmail.com>,
	"'Alexander Viro'" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"'Kees Cook'" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"'Willy Tarreau'" <w@1wt.eu>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"'yalin wang'" <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com>,
	"'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'Jan Kara'" <jack@suse.cz>,
	"'Linux FS Devel'" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/2] fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:17:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <014401d27761$2c79f990$856decb0$@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <826ec4aab64ec304944098d15209f8c1ae65bb29.1485377903.git.luto@kernel.org>

> Currently, if you open("foo", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | ..., 02777) in a
> directory that is setgid and owned by a different gid than current's
fsgid, you
> end up with an SGID executable that is owned by the directory's GID.  This
is
> a Bad Thing (tm).  Exploiting this is nontrivial because most ways of
creating a
> new file create an empty file and empty executables aren't particularly
> interesting, but this is nevertheless quite dangerous.
> 
> Harden against this type of attack by detecting this particular corner
case
> (unprivileged program creates SGID executable inode in SGID directory
> owned by a different GID) and clearing the new inode's SGID bit.

Nasty.

I'd love to see a test for this in xfstests and/or pjdfstests...

Frank


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-25 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-25 21:06 [PATCH 0/2] setgid hardening Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-25 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] fs: Check f_cred instead of current's creds in should_remove_suid() Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-25 21:43   ` Ben Hutchings
2017-01-25 21:48     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-25 23:15       ` Frank Filz
2017-01-26  0:12     ` Kees Cook
2017-01-25 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-25 21:31   ` Ben Hutchings
2017-01-25 21:44     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-01-25 23:17   ` Frank Filz [this message]
2017-01-25 23:50   ` Willy Tarreau
2017-01-25 23:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] setgid hardening Willy Tarreau

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