Re: [PATCH 1/1] integrity: prevent loading untrusted certificates to IMA trusted keyring

[Mimi Zohar]

On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 22:06 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
> If IMA_LOAD_X509 is enabled either directly or indirectly via
> IMA_APPRAISE_SIGNED_INIT, it enables certificate loading to the IMA trusted
> keyring from the kernel. Due to the overlook, KEY_ALLOC_TRUSTED was used in the
> key_create_or_update() to create keys within the kernel, which caused
> overriding certificate verification result and allowed to load self-signed or
> wrongly signed certificates.
> 
> This patch just removes this option.

Thanks!

Mimi

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:  <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.19+
> ---
>  security/integrity/digsig.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/integrity/digsig.c b/security/integrity/digsig.c
> index 36fb6b5..5be9ffb 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/digsig.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/digsig.c
> @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ int __init integrity_load_x509(const unsigned int id, const char *path)
>  				   rc,
>  				   ((KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
>  				    KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ),
> -				   KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA | KEY_ALLOC_TRUSTED);
> +				   KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA);
>  	if (IS_ERR(key)) {
>  		rc = PTR_ERR(key);
>  		pr_err("Problem loading X.509 certificate (%d): %s\n",


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