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[v2,8/8] exec: Use sane stack rlimit under secureexec

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Kees Cook July 10, 2017, 7:57 a.m. UTC
For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
the resulting layouts.

$ ulimit -s
8192
$ ulimit -s unlimited
$ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
unlimited
$ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
8192

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 fs/exec.c | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

Comments

Ben Hutchings July 10, 2017, 2:08 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 00:57 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
> stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
> the resulting layouts.
> 
> $ ulimit -s
> 8192
> $ ulimit -s unlimited
> $ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> unlimited
> $ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> 8192
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  fs/exec.c | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index e0186db02f90..1e3463854a16 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1343,6 +1343,16 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>  
>  		/* Make sure parent cannot signal privileged process. */
>  		current->pdeath_signal = 0;
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * For secureexec, reset the stack limit to sane default to
> +		 * avoid bad behavior from the prior rlimits. This has to
> +		 * happen before arch_pick_mmap_layout(), which examines
> +		 * RLIMIT_STACK, but after the point of no return to avoid
> +		 * needing to clean up the change on failure.
> +		 */
> +		if (current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur > _STK_LIM)
> +			current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur = _STK_LIM;

As setup_new_exec() is called before install_exec_creds(), I think this
leaves a window where the real user can change the limit again with
prlimit().

Ben.

>  	}
>  
>  	arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);
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diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e0186db02f90..1e3463854a16 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1343,6 +1343,16 @@  void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 
 		/* Make sure parent cannot signal privileged process. */
 		current->pdeath_signal = 0;
+
+		/*
+		 * For secureexec, reset the stack limit to sane default to
+		 * avoid bad behavior from the prior rlimits. This has to
+		 * happen before arch_pick_mmap_layout(), which examines
+		 * RLIMIT_STACK, but after the point of no return to avoid
+		 * needing to clean up the change on failure.
+		 */
+		if (current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur > _STK_LIM)
+			current->signal->rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur = _STK_LIM;
 	}
 
 	arch_pick_mmap_layout(current->mm);