From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
passt-dev@passt.top, Minxi Hou <mhou@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] conf, passt, tap: Open socket and PID files before switching UID/GID
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:12:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240620141253.7e6d3855@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240620113054.GB1450@redhat.com>
On Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:30:54 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:35:24PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:59:10PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > > Otherwise, if the user runs us as root, and gives us paths that are
> > > only accessible by root, we'll fail to open them, which might in turn
> > > encourage users to change permissions or ownerships: definitely a bad
> > > idea in terms of security.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Minxi Hou <mhou@redhat.com>
> > > Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
> >
> > Looking at this I did notice a pre-existing, well, maybe not bug
> > exactly, but possibly surprising behaviour, which makes me a
> > bit more nervous now that we can invoke it as root.
> >
> > tap_sock_unix_open() will silently truncate the given socket path to
> > the maximum length for a Unix socket. Which means we could bind(),
> > but also unlink() a path that's not exactly the same as the one the
> > one the user requested. I don't immediately see a way to exploit
> > that, but it's the sort of thing that makes me nervous. I think we
> > should instead outright fail if the given socket path is too long.
>
> Yes, agreed.
>
> It seems as if the latest passt code still does this. Do you want me
> to open a bug about it?
Yes, please, that, or a patch :)
--
Stefano
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-22 20:59 [PATCH 0/8] Open socket and PID files as root, before switching Stefano Brivio
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 1/8] conf: Don't lecture user about starting us as root Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 1:45 ` David Gibson
2024-05-23 9:52 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 2/8] tap: Move all-ones initialisation of mac_guest to tap_sock_init() Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 1:46 ` David Gibson
2024-05-23 9:59 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-23 10:03 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 3/8] passt, tap: Don't use -1 as uninitialised value for fd_tap_listen Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 1:48 ` David Gibson
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 4/8] tap: Split tap_sock_unix_init() into opening and listening parts Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 10:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-28 7:01 ` David Gibson
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 5/8] util: Rename write_pidfile() to pidfile_write() Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 10:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 6/8] passt, util: Move opening of PID file to its own function Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 10:06 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-28 7:04 ` David Gibson
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 7/8] conf, passt, tap: Open socket and PID files before switching UID/GID Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 10:10 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-29 2:35 ` David Gibson
2024-06-20 11:30 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-06-20 12:12 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2024-06-20 12:47 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-06-20 14:22 ` Stefano Brivio
2024-06-21 1:02 ` David Gibson
2024-05-22 20:59 ` [PATCH 8/8] conf, passt.h: Rename pid_file in struct ctx to pidfile Stefano Brivio
2024-05-23 10:11 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2024-05-28 7:07 ` David Gibson
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