[Lucid][CVE-2013-2929] exec/ptrace: fix get_dumpable() incorrect tests

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Feb 13 12:26:35 UTC 2014


From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

CVE-2013-2929

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260610

The get_dumpable() return value is not boolean.  Most users of the
function actually want to be testing for non-SUID_DUMP_USER(1) rather than
SUID_DUMP_DISABLE(0).  The SUID_DUMP_ROOT(2) is also considered a
protected state.  Almost all places did this correctly, excepting the two
places fixed in this patch.

Wrong logic:
    if (dumpable == SUID_DUMP_DISABLE) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable == 0) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (!dumpable) { /* be protective */ }

Correct logic:
    if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER) { /* be protective */ }
        or
    if (dumpable != 1) { /* be protective */ }

Without this patch, if the system had set the sysctl fs/suid_dumpable=2, a
user was able to ptrace attach to processes that had dropped privileges to
that user.  (This may have been partially mitigated if Yama was enabled.)

The macros have been moved into the file that declares get/set_dumpable(),
which means things like the ia64 code can see them too.

CVE-2013-2929

Reported-by: Vasily Kulikov <segoon at openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck at intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(back ported from commit d049f74f2dbe71354d43d393ac3a188947811348)
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +-
 fs/exec.c                         | 6 ++++++
 include/linux/binfmts.h           | 3 ---
 include/linux/sched.h             | 4 ++++
 kernel/ptrace.c                   | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
index 3eaeedf..d77b342 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ struct thread_struct {
 	regs->loadrs = 0;									\
 	regs->r8 = get_dumpable(current->mm);	/* set "don't zap registers" flag */		\
 	regs->r12 = new_sp - 16;	/* allocate 16 byte scratch area */			\
-	if (unlikely(!get_dumpable(current->mm))) {							\
+	if (unlikely(get_dumpable(current->mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER)) {	\
 		/*										\
 		 * Zap scratch regs to avoid leaking bits between processes with different	\
 		 * uid/privileges.								\
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 0f3a553..c47c888 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1797,6 +1797,12 @@ void set_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm, int value)
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * This returns the actual value of the suid_dumpable flag. For things
+ * that are using this for checking for privilege transitions, it must
+ * test against SUID_DUMP_USER rather than treating it as a boolean
+ * value.
+ */
 int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	int ret;
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 9ffffec..8eab628 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -107,9 +107,6 @@ extern int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm);
 extern void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm);
 
 extern int suid_dumpable;
-#define SUID_DUMP_DISABLE	0	/* No setuid dumping */
-#define SUID_DUMP_USER		1	/* Dump as user of process */
-#define SUID_DUMP_ROOT		2	/* Dump as root */
 
 /* Stack area protections */
 #define EXSTACK_DEFAULT   0	/* Whatever the arch defaults to */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 2c3432c..e84f8db 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -445,6 +445,10 @@ static inline unsigned long get_mm_hiwater_vm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 extern void set_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm, int value);
 extern int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm);
 
+#define SUID_DUMP_DISABLE	0	/* No setuid dumping */
+#define SUID_DUMP_USER		1	/* Dump as user of process */
+#define SUID_DUMP_ROOT		2	/* Dump as root */
+
 /* mm flags */
 /* dumpable bits */
 #define MMF_DUMPABLE      0  /* core dump is permitted */
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index d9c8c47..4185220 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	smp_rmb();
 	if (task->mm)
 		dumpable = get_dumpable(task->mm);
-	if (!dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+	if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);
-- 
1.8.3.2




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