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author | Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> | 2008-07-04 09:59:59 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-07-04 10:40:08 -0700 |
commit | 1209726ce942047c9fefe7cd427dc36f8e9ded53 (patch) | |
tree | 298e78052d6bdd92c78b22c86604f8c8364bc8d9 /security/commoncap.c | |
parent | 086f7316f0d400806d76323beefae996bb3849b1 (diff) | |
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security: filesystem capabilities: fix CAP_SETPCAP handling
The filesystem capability support meaning for CAP_SETPCAP is less powerful
than the non-filesystem capability support. As such, when filesystem
capabilities are configured, we should not permit CAP_SETPCAP to 'enhance'
the current process through strace manipulation of a child process.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/commoncap.c')
-rw-r--r-- | security/commoncap.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c index 5edabc7542a..33d34330841 100644 --- a/security/commoncap.c +++ b/security/commoncap.c @@ -103,10 +103,16 @@ static inline int cap_inh_is_capped(void) return (cap_capable(current, CAP_SETPCAP) != 0); } +static inline int cap_limit_ptraced_target(void) { return 1; } + #else /* ie., ndef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */ static inline int cap_block_setpcap(struct task_struct *t) { return 0; } static inline int cap_inh_is_capped(void) { return 1; } +static inline int cap_limit_ptraced_target(void) +{ + return !capable(CAP_SETPCAP); +} #endif /* def CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */ @@ -342,9 +348,10 @@ void cap_bprm_apply_creds (struct linux_binprm *bprm, int unsafe) bprm->e_uid = current->uid; bprm->e_gid = current->gid; } - if (!capable (CAP_SETPCAP)) { - new_permitted = cap_intersect (new_permitted, - current->cap_permitted); + if (cap_limit_ptraced_target()) { + new_permitted = + cap_intersect(new_permitted, + current->cap_permitted); } } } |