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capabilities: require CAP_SETFCAP to map uid 0
cap_setfcap is required to create file capabilities. Since commit 8db6c34 ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities"), a process running as uid 0 but without cap_setfcap is able to work around this as follows: unshare a new user namespace which maps parent uid 0 into the child namespace. While this task will not have new capabilities against the parent namespace, there is a loophole due to the way namespaced file capabilities are represented as xattrs. File capabilities valid in userns 1 are distinguished from file capabilities valid in userns 2 by the kuid which underlies uid 0. Therefore the restricted root process can unshare a new self-mapping namespace, add a namespaced file capability onto a file, then use that file capability in the parent namespace. To prevent that, do not allow mapping parent uid 0 if the process which opened the uid_map file does not have CAP_SETFCAP, which is the capability for setting file capabilities. As a further wrinkle: a task can unshare its user namespace, then open its uid_map file itself, and map (only) its own uid. In this case we do not have the credential from before unshare, which was potentially more restricted. So, when creating a user namespace, we record whether the creator had CAP_SETFCAP. Then we can use that during map_write(). With this patch: 1. Unprivileged user can still unshare -Ur ubuntu@caps:~$ unshare -Ur root@caps:~# logout 2. Root user can still unshare -Ur ubuntu@caps:~$ sudo bash root@caps:/home/ubuntu# unshare -Ur root@caps:/home/ubuntu# logout 3. Root user without CAP_SETFCAP cannot unshare -Ur: root@caps:/home/ubuntu# /sbin/capsh --drop=cap_setfcap -- root@caps:/home/ubuntu# /sbin/setcap cap_setfcap=p /sbin/setcap unable to set CAP_SETFCAP effective capability: Operation not permitted root@caps:/home/ubuntu# unshare -Ur unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map: Operation not permitted Note: an alternative solution would be to allow uid 0 mappings by processes without CAP_SETFCAP, but to prevent such a namespace from writing any file capabilities. This approach can be seen at [1]. Background history: commit 95ebabd ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities") tried to fix the issue by preventing v3 fscaps to be written to disk when the root uid would map to the same uid in nested user namespaces. This led to regressions for various workloads. For example, see [2]. Ultimately this is a valid use-case we have to support meaning we had to revert this change in 3b0c2d3 ("Revert 95ebabd ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")"). Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux.git/log/?h=2021-04-15/setfcap-nsfscaps-v4 [1] Link: containers/buildah#3071 [2] Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andrew G. Morgan <[email protected]> Tested-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]> Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]> Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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