Hi Greg,
On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 03:48:35PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 09:28:56PM +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> > The wake lock/unlock sysfs interfaces check that the writer must has
> > CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND capability. But the checking logic can be bypassed
> > by opening sysfs file within an unprivileged process and then writing
> > the file within a privileged process. The tricking way has been exposed
> > by Andy Lutomirski in CVE-2013-1959.
>
> Don't you mean "open by privileged and then written by unprivileged?"
> Or if not, exactly how is this a problem? You check the capabilities
> when you do the write and if that is not allowed then, well
>
Sorry for I didn't provide clear explanation.
The privileged means CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND but not file permission. The file
permission
has already relaxed for non-root user. Then the expected behavior is that
non-root
process must has CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND capability for writing wake_lock sysfs.
But, the CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND restrict can be bypassed:
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
int fd, ret = 0;
fd = open("/sys/power/wake_lock", O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0)
err(1, "open wake_lock");
if (dup2(fd, 1) != 1) // overwrite the stdout with wake_lock
err(1, "dup2");
sleep(1);
execl("./string", "string"); //string has capability
return ret;
}
This program is an unpriviledged process (has no CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND), it opened
wake_lock sysfs and overwrited stdout. Then it executes the "string" program
that has CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND. The string program writes to stdout, which means
that it writes to wake_lock. So an unpriviledged opener can trick an priviledged
writer for writing sysfs.
> And you are checking the namespace of the person trying to do the write
> when the write happens, which is correct here, right?
>
> If you really want to mess with wake locks in a namespaced environment,
> then put it in a real namespaced environment, which is {HUGE HINT} not
> sysfs.
>
I don't want to mess with wake locks in namespace.
> So no, this patch isn't ok...
>
Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee
