Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] setgid hardening

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Mon Jan 30 2017 - 22:51:32 EST


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Andy, this is an API change!

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The kernel has some dangerous behavior involving the creation and
> modification of setgid executables. These issues aren't kernel
> security bugs per se, but they have been used to turn various
> filesystem permission oddities into reliably privilege escalation
> exploits.
>
> See http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/SetgidDirectoryPrivilegeEscalation/
> for a nice writeup.
>
> Let's fix them for real.
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Fix uninitialized variable issue (Willy, Ben)
> - Also check current creds in should_remove_suid() (Ben)
>
> Andy Lutomirski (2):
> fs: Check f_cred as well as of current's creds in should_remove_suid()
> fs: Harden against open(..., O_CREAT, 02777) in a setgid directory
>
> fs/inode.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> fs/internal.h | 2 +-
> fs/ocfs2/file.c | 4 ++--
> fs/open.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
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