Commit
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
While looking through the Moby source code was found /proc/asound to be shared with containers as read-only. This can lead to two information leaks. --- **Leak of media playback status of the host** Steps to reproduce the issue: - Listen to music/Play a YouTube video/Do anything else that involves sound output - Execute docker run --rm ubuntu:latest bash -c "sleep 7; cat /proc/asound/card*/pcm*p/sub*/status | grep state | cut -d ' ' -f2 | grep RUNNING || echo 'not running'" - See that the containerized process is able to check whether someone on the host is playing music as it prints RUNNING - Stop the music output - Execute the command again (The sleep is delaying the output because information regarding playback status isn't propagated instantly) - See that it outputs not running **Describe the results you received:** A containerized process is able to gather information on the playback status of an audio device governed by the host. Therefore a process of a container is able to check whether and what kind of user activity is present on the host system. Also, this may indicate whether a container runs on a desktop system or a server as media playback rarely happens on server systems. The description above is in regard to media playback - when examining `/proc/asound/card*/pcm*c/sub*/status` (`pcm*c` instead of `pcm*p`) this can also leak information regarding capturing sound, as in recording audio or making calls on the host system. Reported-by: Philipp Schmied <pschmied@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
- Loading branch information