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Kees Cook 368f6985d4 exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage
commit f50733b45d865f91db90919f8311e2127ce5a0cb upstream.

When opening a file for exec via do_filp_open(), permission checking is
done against the file's metadata at that moment, and on success, a file
pointer is passed back. Much later in the execve() code path, the file
metadata (specifically mode, uid, and gid) is used to determine if/how
to set the uid and gid. However, those values may have changed since the
permissions check, meaning the execution may gain unintended privileges.

For example, if a file could change permissions from executable and not
set-id:

---------x 1 root root 16048 Aug  7 13:16 target

to set-id and non-executable:

---S------ 1 root root 16048 Aug  7 13:16 target

it is possible to gain root privileges when execution should have been
disallowed.

While this race condition is rare in real-world scenarios, it has been
observed (and proven exploitable) when package managers are updating
the setuid bits of installed programs. Such files start with being
world-executable but then are adjusted to be group-exec with a set-uid
bit. For example, "chmod o-x,u+s target" makes "target" executable only
by uid "root" and gid "cdrom", while also becoming setuid-root:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug  7 13:16 target

becomes:

-rwsr-xr-- 1 root cdrom 16048 Aug  7 13:16 target

But racing the chmod means users without group "cdrom" membership can
get the permission to execute "target" just before the chmod, and when
the chmod finishes, the exec reaches brpm_fill_uid(), and performs the
setuid to root, violating the expressed authorization of "only cdrom
group members can setuid to root".

Re-check that we still have execute permissions in case the metadata
has changed. It would be better to keep a copy from the perm-check time,
but until we can do that refactoring, the least-bad option is to do a
full inode_permission() call (under inode lock). It is understood that
this is safe against dead-locks, but hardly optimal.

Reported-by: Marco Vanotti <mvanotti@google.com>
Tested-by: Marco Vanotti <mvanotti@google.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
arch arm64: cpufeature: Fix the visibility of compat hwcaps 2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
block block: prevent division by zero in blk_rq_stat_sum() 2024-04-13 12:51:38 +02:00
certs
crypto crypto: ecrdsa - Fix module auto-load on add_key 2024-06-16 13:28:51 +02:00
Documentation arm64: cpufeature: Fix the visibility of compat hwcaps 2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
drivers media: uvcvideo: Use entity get_cur in uvc_ctrl_set 2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
fs exec: Fix ToCToU between perm check and set-uid/gid usage 2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
include netfilter: nf_tables: use timestamp to check for set element timeout 2024-08-19 05:33:53 +02:00
init init: open /initrd.image with O_LARGEFILE 2024-04-13 12:51:36 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race 2022-12-08 11:23:06 +01:00
kernel tracing: Fix overflow in get_free_elt() 2024-08-19 05:33:53 +02:00
lib kobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env() 2024-08-19 05:33:38 +02:00
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mm mm: avoid overflows in dirty throttling logic 2024-08-19 05:33:42 +02:00
net netfilter: nf_tables: prefer nft_chain_validate 2024-08-19 05:33:54 +02:00
samples media: rename VFL_TYPE_GRABBER to _VIDEO 2024-03-26 18:22:22 -04:00
scripts kbuild: Fix '-S -c' in x86 stack protector scripts 2024-08-19 05:33:53 +02:00
security apparmor: Fix null pointer deref when receiving skb during sock creation 2024-08-19 05:33:42 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/hdmi: Yet more pin fix for HP EliteDesk 800 G4 2024-08-19 05:33:51 +02:00
tools selftests/bpf: Fix send_signal test with nested CONFIG_PARAVIRT 2024-08-19 05:33:47 +02:00
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virt KVM: async_pf: Cleanup kvm_setup_async_pf() 2024-05-02 16:18:32 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS iio: stx104: Move to addac subdirectory 2023-08-30 16:27:12 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.4.281 2024-07-27 10:38:33 +02:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.