Re: [RFC 2/2] fs,proc: Respect FMODE_WRITE when opening /proc/pid/fd/N

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2014-04-22 16:17:57, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Anyone who opens a file read-only and sends it over SCM_RIGHTS is
> > likely broken.  They may think that it's read-only, so it can't be
> > written, but this /proc/fd issue means that whoever receives it can
> > reopen it.
> >
> > It's true that, if the inode doesn't allow the recipient write access,
> > then the recipient can't reopen, but there are lots of cases where the
> > inode can't reliably be expected not to allow write.  For example, the
> > inode could be unlinked, an O_TMPFILE file, a memfd handle, or in a
> > non-world-executable directory, and the file mode should be respected.
> 
> I think it's safe to assume that any object you create is never
> world-accessible. So the worst you can get is 0600. So if we now take
> your example, your patch doesn't fix the problem at all. Imagine two
> processes, $sender and $receiver. If the receiver runs as a different
> user as the sender, it cannot open /proc/self/fd/ writable due to
> 0600. So the only problematic case is if both run as the same user.
> However, in that case, the receiver can _always_ access
> /proc/$sender/fd/ and thus still gain writable access to the object,
> even if its own fd is read-only and your patch was applied. (ignoring
> the fact that they can kill() and ptrace each other..)
> 
> Protecting world-accessible objects by hiding them is imho wrong. And
> protecting users against themselves is even worse.

See the link for example where this matters in multi-user setting.

Agreed, protecting file using its directory's permissions is not
practice to be recommended, but we should not be breaking it. (And we
are not breaking it if /proc is not mounted...)

Enforcing read-only on file descriptor is IMO useful, and being able
to work around it using /proc/self/fd is a security problem...

									Pavel
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