CVE-2014-4014 (published 2014-06-23T11:21Z)

The capabilities implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.14.8 does not properly consider that namespaces are inapplicable to inodes, which allows local users to bypass intended chmod restrictions by first creating a user namespace, as demonstrated by setting the setgid bit on a file with group ownership of root.

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-264
cwe_name: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
description: Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Andy Lutomirski
author_date: 2014-06-10 12:45:42-07:00
msg: fs,userns: Change inode_capable to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid

The kernel has no concept of capabilities with respect to inodes; inodes
exist independently of namespaces.  For example, inode_capable(inode,
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE) would be nonsense.

This patch changes inode_capable to check for uid and gid mappings and
renames it to capable_wrt_inode_uidgid, which should make it more
obvious what it does.

Fixes CVE-2014-4014.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.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: attr.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr)
 	if ((ia_valid & ATTR_UID) &&
 	    (!uid_eq(current_fsuid(), inode->i_uid) ||
 	     !uid_eq(attr->ia_uid, inode->i_uid)) &&
-	    !inode_capable(inode, CAP_CHOWN))
+	    !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_CHOWN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	/* Make sure caller can chgrp. */
 	if ((ia_valid & ATTR_GID) &&
 	    (!uid_eq(current_fsuid(), inode->i_uid) ||
 	    (!in_group_p(attr->ia_gid) && !gid_eq(attr->ia_gid, inode->i_gid))) &&
-	    !inode_capable(inode, CAP_CHOWN))
+	    !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_CHOWN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	/* Make sure a caller can chmod. */
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ int inode_change_ok(const struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr)
 		/* Also check the setgid bit! */
 		if (!in_group_p((ia_valid & ATTR_GID) ? attr->ia_gid :
 				inode->i_gid) &&
-		    !inode_capable(inode, CAP_FSETID))
+		    !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_FSETID))
 			attr->ia_mode &= ~S_ISGID;
 	}
 
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ void setattr_copy(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
 		umode_t mode = attr->ia_mode;
 
 		if (!in_group_p(inode->i_gid) &&
-		    !inode_capable(inode, CAP_FSETID))
+		    !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_FSETID))
 			mode &= ~S_ISGID;
 		inode->i_mode = mode;
 	}

programming_language: C
filename: inode.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1839,14 +1839,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_init_owner);
  * inode_owner_or_capable - check current task permissions to inode
  * @inode: inode being checked
  *
- * Return true if current either has CAP_FOWNER to the inode, or
- * owns the file.
+ * Return true if current either has CAP_FOWNER in a namespace with the
+ * inode owner uid mapped, or owns the file.
  */
 bool inode_owner_or_capable(const struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct user_namespace *ns;
+
 	if (uid_eq(current_fsuid(), inode->i_uid))
 		return true;
-	if (inode_capable(inode, CAP_FOWNER))
+
+	ns = current_user_ns();
+	if (ns_capable(ns, CAP_FOWNER) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid))
 		return true;
 	return false;
 }

programming_language: C
filename: namei.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -332,10 +332,11 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
 		/* DACs are overridable for directories */
-		if (inode_capable(inode, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
+		if (capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
 			return 0;
 		if (!(mask & MAY_WRITE))
-			if (inode_capable(inode, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
+			if (capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode,
+						     CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
 				return 0;
 		return -EACCES;
 	}
@@ -345,7 +346,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	 * at least one exec bit set.
 	 */
 	if (!(mask & MAY_EXEC) || (inode->i_mode & S_IXUGO))
-		if (inode_capable(inode, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
+		if (capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE))
 			return 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -353,7 +354,7 @@ int generic_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 	 */
 	mask &= MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC;
 	if (mask == MAY_READ)
-		if (inode_capable(inode, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
+		if (capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH))
 			return 0;
 
 	return -EACCES;
@@ -2379,7 +2380,7 @@ static inline int check_sticky(struct inode *dir, struct inode *inode)
 		return 0;
 	if (uid_eq(dir->i_uid, fsuid))
 		return 0;
-	return !inode_capable(inode, CAP_FOWNER);
+	return !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_FOWNER);
 }
 
 /*

programming_language: C
filename: xfs_ioctl.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ xfs_ioctl_setattr(
 		 * cleared upon successful return from chown()
 		 */
 		if ((ip->i_d.di_mode & (S_ISUID|S_ISGID)) &&
-		    !inode_capable(VFS_I(ip), CAP_FSETID))
+		    !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(VFS_I(ip), CAP_FSETID))
 			ip->i_d.di_mode &= ~(S_ISUID|S_ISGID);
 
 		/*

programming_language: C
filename: capability.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ extern bool has_ns_capability_noaudit(struct task_struct *t,
 				      struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
 extern bool capable(int cap);
 extern bool ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
-extern bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap);
+extern bool capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(const struct inode *inode, int cap);
 extern bool file_ns_capable(const struct file *file, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
 
 /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */

programming_language: C
filename: capability.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -424,23 +424,19 @@ bool capable(int cap)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable);
 
 /**
- * inode_capable - Check superior capability over inode
+ * capable_wrt_inode_uidgid - Check nsown_capable and uid and gid mapped
  * @inode: The inode in question
  * @cap: The capability in question
  *
- * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability
- * targeted at it's own user namespace and that the given inode is owned
- * by the current user namespace or a child namespace.
- *
- * Currently we check to see if an inode is owned by the current
- * user namespace by seeing if the inode's owner maps into the
- * current user namespace.
- *
+ * Return true if the current task has the given capability targeted at
+ * its own user namespace and that the given inode's uid and gid are
+ * mapped into the current user namespace.
  */
-bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
+bool capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
 {
 	struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns();
 
-	return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid);
+	return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid) &&
+		kgid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_gid);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_capable);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable_wrt_inode_uidgid);

programming_language: C