CVE-2015-3339 (published 2015-05-27T10:59Z)

Race condition in the prepare_binprm function in fs/exec.c in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows local users to gain privileges by executing a setuid program at a time instant when a chown to root is in progress, and the ownership is changed but the setuid bit is not yet stripped.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-362
cwe_name: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
description: The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
extended_description: 
            This can have security implications when the expected synchronization is in security-critical code, such as recording whether a user is authenticated or modifying important state information that should not be influenced by an outsider.
            A race condition occurs within concurrent environments, and is effectively a property of a code sequence. Depending on the context, a code sequence may be in the form of a function call, a small number of instructions, a series of program invocations, etc.
            A race condition violates these properties, which are closely related:
               
                  Exclusivity - the code sequence is given exclusive access to the shared resource, i.e., no other code sequence can modify properties of the shared resource before the original sequence has completed execution.
                  Atomicity - the code sequence is behaviorally atomic, i.e., no other thread or process can concurrently execute the same sequence of instructions (or a subset) against the same resource.
               
            A race condition exists when an "interfering code sequence" can still access the shared resource, violating exclusivity. Programmers may assume that certain code sequences execute too quickly to be affected by an interfering code sequence; when they are not, this violates atomicity. For example, the single "x++" statement may appear atomic at the code layer, but it is actually non-atomic at the instruction layer, since it involves a read (the original value of x), followed by a computation (x+1), followed by a write (save the result to x).
            The interfering code sequence could be "trusted" or "untrusted." A trusted interfering code sequence occurs within the product; it cannot be modified by the attacker, and it can only be invoked indirectly. An untrusted interfering code sequence can be authored directly by the attacker, and typically it is external to the vulnerable product.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Jann Horn
author_date: 2015-04-19 02:48:39+02:00
msg: fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id executables

This prevents a race between chown() and execve(), where chowning a
setuid-user binary to root would momentarily make the binary setuid
root.

This patch was mostly written by Linus Torvalds.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: exec.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1275,6 +1275,53 @@ static void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	spin_unlock(&p->fs->lock);
 }
 
+static void bprm_fill_uid(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
+{
+	struct inode *inode;
+	unsigned int mode;
+	kuid_t uid;
+	kgid_t gid;
+
+	/* clear any previous set[ug]id data from a previous binary */
+	bprm->cred->euid = current_euid();
+	bprm->cred->egid = current_egid();
+
+	if (bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)
+		return;
+
+	if (task_no_new_privs(current))
+		return;
+
+	inode = file_inode(bprm->file);
+	mode = READ_ONCE(inode->i_mode);
+	if (!(mode & (S_ISUID|S_ISGID)))
+		return;
+
+	/* Be careful if suid/sgid is set */
+	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+	/* reload atomically mode/uid/gid now that lock held */
+	mode = inode->i_mode;
+	uid = inode->i_uid;
+	gid = inode->i_gid;
+	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+
+	/* We ignore suid/sgid if there are no mappings for them in the ns */
+	if (!kuid_has_mapping(bprm->cred->user_ns, uid) ||
+		 !kgid_has_mapping(bprm->cred->user_ns, gid))
+		return;
+
+	if (mode & S_ISUID) {
+		bprm->per_clear |= PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID;
+		bprm->cred->euid = uid;
+	}
+
+	if ((mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) {
+		bprm->per_clear |= PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID;
+		bprm->cred->egid = gid;
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Fill the binprm structure from the inode.
  * Check permissions, then read the first 128 (BINPRM_BUF_SIZE) bytes
@@ -1283,36 +1330,9 @@ static void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
  */
 int prepare_binprm(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = file_inode(bprm->file);
-	umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
 	int retval;
 
-
-	/* clear any previous set[ug]id data from a previous binary */
-	bprm->cred->euid = current_euid();
-	bprm->cred->egid = current_egid();
-
-	if (!(bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID) &&
-	    !task_no_new_privs(current) &&
-	    kuid_has_mapping(bprm->cred->user_ns, inode->i_uid) &&
-	    kgid_has_mapping(bprm->cred->user_ns, inode->i_gid)) {
-		/* Set-uid? */
-		if (mode & S_ISUID) {
-			bprm->per_clear |= PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID;
-			bprm->cred->euid = inode->i_uid;
-		}
-
-		/* Set-gid? */
-		/*
-		 * If setgid is set but no group execute bit then this
-		 * is a candidate for mandatory locking, not a setgid
-		 * executable.
-		 */
-		if ((mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) {
-			bprm->per_clear |= PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID;
-			bprm->cred->egid = inode->i_gid;
-		}
-	}
+	bprm_fill_uid(bprm);
 
 	/* fill in binprm security blob */
 	retval = security_bprm_set_creds(bprm);

programming_language: C