Commit d9da5eed authored by Jann Horn's avatar Jann Horn Committed by Stefan Bader

ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1836668

commit 6994eefb upstream.

Fix two issues:

When called for PTRACE_TRACEME, ptrace_link() would obtain an RCU
reference to the parent's objective credentials, then give that pointer
to get_cred().  However, the object lifetime rules for things like
struct cred do not permit unconditionally turning an RCU reference into
a stable reference.

PTRACE_TRACEME records the parent's credentials as if the parent was
acting as the subject, but that's not the case.  If a malicious
unprivileged child uses PTRACE_TRACEME and the parent is privileged, and
at a later point, the parent process becomes attacker-controlled
(because it drops privileges and calls execve()), the attacker ends up
with control over two processes with a privileged ptrace relationship,
which can be abused to ptrace a suid binary and obtain root privileges.

Fix both of these by always recording the credentials of the process
that is requesting the creation of the ptrace relationship:
current_cred() can't change under us, and current is the proper subject
for access control.

This change is theoretically userspace-visible, but I am not aware of
any code that it will actually break.

Fixes: 64b875f7 ("ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKhalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 9b77cd9a
......@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@ void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent,
*/
static void ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child, struct task_struct *new_parent)
{
rcu_read_lock();
__ptrace_link(child, new_parent, __task_cred(new_parent));
rcu_read_unlock();
__ptrace_link(child, new_parent, current_cred());
}
/**
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