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authorOlivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>2025-09-27 09:56:33 +0000
committerOlivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>2025-10-02 16:57:19 +0000
commit89958992b6189eaecbb3d036fce90fcecb005cb2 (patch)
tree700e0878dc489f6b4c2244e099a73d366e4cafdd
parent09ae06b1b224517b792a799620cf6038d7b52893 (diff)
MAC/do: Check executable path from the current jail's root
Contrary to my initial belief, vn_fullpath() does return a vnode's path from the current chroot, and not from the global root (which would have been a bug also, but without security consequences). This enables a "confused deputy"-like scenario where a chroot(2) can change which executable can be authorized by MAC/do, which is even more problematic for unprivileged chroot(2). This was found by re-examining the code following two close events: 1. Shawn Webb sent a mail to freebsd-hackers@ on 08/05 saying that in HardenedBSD they had added a check on P2_NO_NEW_PRIVS (in mac_do_priv_grant()), which I responded to on 08/20 saying that P2_NO_NEW_PRIVS was not necessary for mac_do(4), with a correct reasoning but based on the wrong above-mentioned assumption about vn_fullpath(). 2. I reviewed some code by Kushagra Srivastava (GSoC 2025 student working on mac_do(4)/mdo(1)) adding the ability to specify which executables can spawn processes that mac_do(4) may decide to authorize (others are simply ignored), which currently is hardcoded to '/usr/bin/mdo'. MFC after: 3 days Event: EuroBSDCon 2025 Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52758 (cherry picked from commit 9f269a0a771aff4f0a735211907a52c52fc0661b)
-rw-r--r--sys/security/mac_do/mac_do.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/security/mac_do/mac_do.c b/sys/security/mac_do/mac_do.c
index 6f3e63d06198..2bcff7bba973 100644
--- a/sys/security/mac_do/mac_do.c
+++ b/sys/security/mac_do/mac_do.c
@@ -1992,6 +1992,10 @@ check_proc(void)
/*
* Only grant privileges if requested by the right executable.
*
+ * As MAC/do configuration is per-jail, in order to avoid confused
+ * deputy situations in chroots (privileged or unprivileged), make sure
+ * to check the path from the current jail's root.
+ *
* XXXOC: We may want to base this check on a tunable path and/or
* a specific MAC label. Going even further, e.g., envisioning to
* completely replace the path check with the latter, we would need to
@@ -2003,7 +2007,7 @@ check_proc(void)
* setting a MAC label per file (perhaps via additions to mtree(1)). So
* this probably isn't going to happen overnight, if ever.
*/
- if (vn_fullpath(curproc->p_textvp, &path, &to_free) != 0)
+ if (vn_fullpath_jail(curproc->p_textvp, &path, &to_free) != 0)
return (EPERM);
error = strcmp(path, "/usr/bin/mdo") == 0 ? 0 : EPERM;
free(to_free, M_TEMP);