Re: CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS root exploit

[Eric W. Biederman]

Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> It seem like we should block (at least) this combination. On 3.9, this
> exploit works once uidmapping is added.
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/03/13/10

Yes.  That is a bad combination.  It let's chroot confuse privileged
processes.

Now to figure out if this is easier to squash by adding a user_namespace
to fs_struct or by just forbidding this combination.

Eric
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