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Message-Id: <81E7532F-92B3-4665-8C5D-3CA1893A78B1@kernel.sg>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:03:20 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS root exploit
On 14 Mar, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg> wrote:
> On 13 Mar, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seems like CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS might be a forbidden
>> combination.
>> During evaluating the new user namespace thingie, it turned out
>> that its trivially exploitable to get a (real) uid 0,
>> as demonstrated here:
>>
>> http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/clown-newuser.c
>>
>> The trick is to setup a chroot in your CLONE_NEWUSER,
>> but also affecting the parent, which is running
>> in the init_user_ns, but with the chroot shared.
>> Then its trivial to get a rootshell from that.
>>
>> Tested on a openSUSE12.1 with a custom build 3.8.2 (x86_64).
>>
>> I hope I didnt make anything wrong, mixing up the UIDs,
>> or disabled important checks during kernel build on my test
>> system. ;)
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=aea8b5d1e5c5482e7cdda849dc16d728f7080289
I realised that the link is incorrect. Will post again when I see the patches.
>
Eugene
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