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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
	Mikhail Kurinnoi <viewizard@viewizard.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: Make it practical to ship EVM signatures
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:54:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1506974068.5691.300.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACdnJuv11cjDHac6M+iofB7yA=on2N5ZiqXz8onZZPtGFgo7yA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 10:09 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-09-29 at 13:09 -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> If the security metadata is different then copying another
> >> security.evm will fail, surely?
> >
> > A copy of the file could exist with a valid hmac on the system with
> > different security xattrs.  Without the inode/uuid, the xattrs could
> > be cut & pasted.
> 
> So we have /usr/bin/a and /usr/bin/b, which are identical but have
> different security contexts. Outside some unusual cases, if I have the
> ability to modify /usr/bin/b's security.evm, I can delete /usr/bin/b.
> I can then also just do:
> 
> ln -f /usr/bin/a /usr/bin/b
> 
> and /usr/bin/b now has the same security context as /usr/bin/a,
> including security.evm.

All true, but instead of /usr/bin/a and /usr/bin/b, which most likely
have the same LSM labels, think of it in terms of /home/bin/b.  An
offline attack wouldn't require access to the EVM HMAC key or any
privileges.

Mimi

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-02 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-27 22:16 RFC: Make it practical to ship EVM signatures Matthew Garrett
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 1/6] IMA: Allow EVM validation on appraisal even without a symmetric key Matthew Garrett
2017-10-01  2:08   ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-02 17:02     ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-02 19:41       ` Mimi Zohar
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 2/6] EVM: Add infrastructure for making EVM fields optional Matthew Garrett
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 3/6] EVM: Allow userland to override the default EVM attributes Matthew Garrett
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 4/6] EVM: Add an hmac_ng xattr format Matthew Garrett
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 5/6] EVM: Write out HMAC xattrs in the new format Matthew Garrett
2017-09-27 22:16 ` [PATCH 6/6] EVM: Add a new digital signature format Matthew Garrett
2017-09-28 20:12 ` RFC: Make it practical to ship EVM signatures Mimi Zohar
2017-09-28 21:13   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-09-29  0:53     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-09-29 18:09       ` Matthew Garrett
2017-09-29 19:02         ` Mimi Zohar
2017-09-29 19:17           ` Matthew Garrett
2017-09-29 20:01             ` Mimi Zohar
2017-09-29 20:09               ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-01  2:36                 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-02 17:09                   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-02 19:54                     ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
     [not found]                       ` <CACdnJutYw7Pgh-EwWuwp9Wz+5KzoreZVr+c6UV30zC__8FZSVA@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                         ` <1506974574.5691.304.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-10-02 20:07                           ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-09 17:51                 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-09 17:59                   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-09 18:15                     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-09 18:18                       ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-09 18:40                         ` Mimi Zohar
     [not found]                           ` <20171009232314.545de76a@totoro>
     [not found]                             ` <1507583449.3748.46.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]                               ` <20171010003326.6409ae23@totoro>
2017-10-09 21:40                                 ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-09 23:10                                   ` Mikhail Kurinnoi
2017-10-10 19:07                                     ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-12 23:09                                       ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-18 19:48                                         ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-18 20:30                                           ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-18 20:37                                             ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-18 21:02                                               ` Mikhail Kurinnoi
2017-10-18 21:07                                               ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-19 10:14                                                 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-19 11:43                                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-19 17:08                                                   ` Matthew Garrett
2017-10-19 18:38                                                     ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-19 10:36                                                 ` Dmitry Kasatkin
2017-10-19 11:45                                                   ` Mimi Zohar
2017-10-02 14:53           ` Roberto Sassu
2017-10-02  8:55       ` Roberto Sassu

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