From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Heikki Kallasjoki <heikki.kallasjoki@iki.fi>
Cc: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/exec: require argv[0] presence in do_execveat_common()
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:57:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202201261545.D955A71E@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YfE/owUY+gVnn2b/@selene.zem.fi>
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 12:33:39PM +0000, Heikki Kallasjoki wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 05:18:58AM -0600, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > Lots of stuff likes to do:
> > > execve(path, NULL, NULL);
> >
> > I looked at these, and these seem to basically be lazily-written test cases
> > which should be fixed. I didn't see any example of real-world applications
> > doing this. As noted in some of the test cases, there are comments like
> > "Solaris doesn't support this," etc.
>
> See also the (small) handful of instances of `execlp(cmd, NULL);` out
> there, which I imagine would start to fail:
> https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execlp%3F%5Cs*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C%5Cs*NULL&literal=0
>
> Two of the hits (ispell, nauty) would seem to be non-test use cases.
Ah yeah, I've added this to the Issue tracker:
https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/176
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-26 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-26 4:39 [PATCH] fs/exec: require argv[0] presence in do_execveat_common() Ariadne Conill
2022-01-26 6:42 ` Kees Cook
2022-01-26 7:28 ` Kees Cook
2022-01-26 11:18 ` Ariadne Conill
2022-01-26 12:33 ` Heikki Kallasjoki
2022-01-26 23:57 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2022-01-27 0:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2022-01-26 16:59 ` David Laight
2022-01-26 13:27 ` Rich Felker
2022-01-26 14:46 ` Christian Brauner
2022-01-26 17:37 ` Ariadne Conill
2022-02-01 20:54 ` hypervis0r
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-01-26 15:02 Alexey Dobriyan
2022-01-27 0:00 ` Kees Cook
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