fs: exec: apply CLOEXEC before changing dumpable task flags

cyphar · Al Viro · commit 613cc2b6f272 · 2016-12-22T23:03:41.000-05:00
If you have a process that has set itself to be non-dumpable, and it
then undergoes exec(2), any CLOEXEC file descriptors it has open are
"exposed" during a race window between the dumpable flags of the process
being reset for exec(2) and CLOEXEC being applied to the file
descriptors. This can be exploited by a process by attempting to access
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd/... during this window, without requiring CAP_SYS_PTRACE.

The race in question is after set_dumpable has been (for get_link,
though the trace is basically the same for readlink):

[vfs]
-&gt; proc_pid_link_inode_operations.get_link
   -&gt; proc_pid_get_link
      -&gt; proc_fd_access_allowed
         -&gt; ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);

Which will return 0, during the race window and CLOEXEC file descriptors
will still be open during this window because do_close_on_exec has not
been called yet. As a result, the ordering of these calls should be
reversed to avoid this race window.

This is of particular concern to container runtimes, where joining a
PID namespace with file descriptors referring to the host filesystem
can result in security issues (since PRCTL_SET_DUMPABLE doesn't protect
against access of CLOEXEC file descriptors -- file descriptors which may
reference filesystem objects the container shouldn't have access to).

Cc: dev@opencontainers.org
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.2+
Reported-by: Michael Crosby &lt;crosbymichael@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
  * current->executable is only used by the procfs.  This allows a dispatch
  * table to check for several different types  of binary formats.  We keep
  * trying until we recognize the file or we run out of supported binary
- * formats. 
+ * formats.
  */
 
 #include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -1268,6 +1268,13 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	flush_thread();
 	current->personality &= ~bprm->per_clear;
 
+	/*
+	 * We have to apply CLOEXEC before we change whether the process is
+	 * dumpable (in setup_new_exec) to avoid a race with a process in userspace
+	 * trying to access the should-be-closed file descriptors of a process
+	 * undergoing exec(2).
+	 */
+	do_close_on_exec(current->files);
 	return 0;
 
 out:
@@ -1330,7 +1337,6 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 	   group */
 	current->self_exec_id++;
 	flush_signal_handlers(current, 0);
-	do_close_on_exec(current->files);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(setup_new_exec);
 
