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userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished
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commit 273d2c6 upstream.

setgroups is unique in not needing a valid mapping before it can be called,
in the case of setgroups(0, NULL) which drops all supplemental groups.

The design of the user namespace assumes that CAP_SETGID can not actually
be used until a gid mapping is established.  Therefore add a helper function
to see if the user namespace gid mapping has been established and call
that function in the setgroups permission check.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989, being able to drop groups
without privilege using user namespaces.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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ebiederm authored and gregkh committed Jan 8, 2015
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/user_namespace.h
Expand Up @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ extern struct seq_operations proc_projid_seq_operations;
extern ssize_t proc_uid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
extern ssize_t proc_gid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
extern ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
extern bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns);
#else

static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
Expand All @@ -87,6 +88,10 @@ static inline void put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
{
}

static inline bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
{
return true;
}
#endif

#endif /* _LINUX_USER_H */
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion kernel/groups.c
Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

/* init to 2 - one for init_task, one to ensure it is never freed */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -227,7 +228,8 @@ bool may_setgroups(void)
{
struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();

return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID);
return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID) &&
userns_may_setgroups(user_ns);
}

/*
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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions kernel/user_namespace.c
Expand Up @@ -836,6 +836,20 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
return false;
}

bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
{
bool allowed;

mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
/* It is not safe to use setgroups until a gid mapping in
* the user namespace has been established.
*/
allowed = ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0;
mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);

return allowed;
}

static void *userns_get(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct user_namespace *user_ns;
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