Re: GPM & Emacs broken in Linux 6.7 -- ok to relax check?

[Günther Noack]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 02:53:27PM +0100, Günther Noack wrote:
> Hanno, you are the original author of this patch and you have done a more
> detailed analysis on the TIOCLINUX problems than me -- do you agree that this
> weakened check would still be sufficient to protect against the TIOCLINUX
> problems?  (Or in other words, if we permitted TIOCL_SELPOINTER, TIOCL_SELCLEAR
> and TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT for non-CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes, would you still see a
> way to misuse that functionality?)

P.S.: For reference, some more detailed reasoning why I think that that proposal
would be OK:

It would protect at least against the "minittyjack.c" example that was attached
to https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/03/14/3

The trick used there was:

* ioctl() with TIOCLINUX with TIOCL_SETSEL with TIOCL_SELLINE,
  to make a selection (a.k.a. changing the contents of vc_sel)
* ioctl() with TIOCLINUX and TIOCL_PASTESEL to paste the selection.
  (The implementation for that is in selection.c/paste_selection()
  and is just copying from vc_sel.)

So as long as we are protecting the change to vc_sel, that should be OK in my
mind.

—Günther