Re: [PATCH] audit: add containerid support for IMA-audit

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Mon May 21 2018 - 17:03:06 EST


On 05/21/2018 02:30 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
Hello Stefan,

On Monday, May 21, 2018 1:53:04 PM EDT Stefan Berger wrote:
On 05/21/2018 12:58 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 10:18:13 AM EDT Stefan Berger wrote:
audit_log_container_info() then releasing the local context. This
version of the record has additional concerns covered here:
https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/52
Following the discussion there and the concern with breaking user space,
how can we split up the AUDIT_INTEGRITY_RULE that is used in
ima_audit_measurement() and ima_parse_rule(), without 'breaking user
space'?

A message produced by ima_parse_rule() looks like this here:

type=INTEGRITY_RULE msg=audit(1526566213.870:305): action="dont_measure"
fsmagic="0x9fa0" res=1
Why is action and fsmagic being logged as untrusted strings? Untrusted
strings are used when an unprivileged user can affect the contents of the
field such as creating a file with space or special characters in the
name.

Also, subject and object information is missing. Who loaded this rule?

in contrast to that an INTEGRITY_PCR record type:

type=INTEGRITY_PCR msg=audit(1526566235.193:334): pid=1615 uid=0 auid=0
ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
op="invalid_pcr" cause="open_writers" comm="scp"
name="/var/log/audit/audit.log" dev="dm-0" ino=1962625 res=1
Why is op & cause being logged as an untrusted string? This also has
incomplete subject information.
It's calling audit_log_string() in both cases:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/security/integrity/integrity
_audit.c#L48
I see. Looking things over, I see that it seems like it should do the right
thing. But the original purpose for this function is here:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/audit.c#L1944

This is where it is logging an untrusted string and has to decide to encode
it or just place it in quotes. If it has quotes, that means it's an untrusted
string but has no control characters in it. I think you want to use
audit_log_format() for any string that is trustworthy.

Replacing all occurrences (in IMA) of audit_log_string() with audit_log_format().


As an aside, I wonder why audit_log_string() is in the API when it is a
helper to audit_log_untrustedstring() ? Without understanding the rules of
untrusted strings, it can't be used correctly without re-inventing
audit_log_untrustedstring() by hand.


Should some of the fields from INTEGRITY_PCR also appear in
INTEGRITY_RULE? If so, which ones?
pid, uid, auid, tty, session, subj, comm, exe, res. <- these are
required to be searchable

We could probably refactor the current integrity_audit_message() and
have ima_parse_rule() call into it to get those fields as well. I
suppose adding new fields to it wouldn't be considered breaking user
space?
The audit user space utilities pretty much expects those fields in that
order for any IMA originating events. You can add things like op or
cause before
We will call into audit_log_task, which will put the parameters into
correct order:

auid uid gid ses subj pid comm exe
I'm telling you what the correct order is. :-) A long time ago, the IMA

:-) Thanks. Was getting confused.

system had audit events with the order I'm mentioning. For example, here's
one from a log I collected back in 2013:

type=INTEGRITY_PCR msg=audit(1327409021.813:21): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295
ses=4294967295 subj=kernel op="add_template_measure" cause="hash_added"
comm="init" name="01parse-kernel.sh" dev=rootfs ino=5413 res=0

it was missing "tty" and "exe", but the order is as I mentioned. The
expectation is that INTEGRITY events maintain this established order across
all events.

I am *appending* exe= and tty= now:

type=INTEGRITY_PCR msg=audit(1526939047.809:305): pid=1609 uid=0 auid=0 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op="invalid_pcr" cause="open_writers" comm="ssh" name="/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd" dev="dm-0" ino=1962679 res=1 exe="/usr/bin/ssh" tty=tty2


ÂÂ Stefan



Thanks,
-Steve


https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/auditsc.c#L2433

that. The reason why you can do that is those additional fields are not
required to be searchable by common criteria.

-Steve