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Add /proc/asound to masked paths
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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.

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**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>
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thaJeztah committed Nov 30, 2018
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion oci/spec_unix.go
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Expand Up @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ func createDefaultSpec(ctx context.Context, id string) (*specs.Spec, error) {
Linux: &specs.Linux{
MaskedPaths: []string{
"/proc/acpi",
"/proc/asound",
"/proc/kcore",
"/proc/keys",
"/proc/latency_stats",
Expand All @@ -164,7 +165,6 @@ func createDefaultSpec(ctx context.Context, id string) (*specs.Spec, error) {
"/proc/scsi",
},
ReadonlyPaths: []string{
"/proc/asound",
"/proc/bus",
"/proc/fs",
"/proc/irq",
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